Quotes about Personal Growth

After I won the Oscar, my salary doubled, my friends tripled, my children became more popular at school, my butcher made a pass at me, and my maid hit me up for a raise.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

One cannot be a good teacher unless he is a good student.

Building character is like making bread—you have to mix it little by little, step by step, and moderate temperature is needed. You know yourself quite well, and you know how much temperature you need. You know exactly what you need. But if you get too excited, you will forget how much temperature is good for you, and you will lose your own way. This is very dangerous.

Jeder wiederholt seine Fehler ein Leben lang. Völlig klar, dass sich nichts wirklich weiterentwickelt, denn in jedem spiegelt sich die Welt, die ihre Geschichte wiederholt bis zur Verblödung.

Exceeding your own expectations can often leave things incomplete

Our only purpose in life is to fulfill our potential.

Success is when you have stretched your limits even by a whisker...

You know you're over it .... if you don't need to laugh it off and still have a smile on your face.

Experience helps you understand what works and what doesn't. And (personally), I think it has more to do with just wanting to continue to learn on and off the ice. … Whether it's, you know, skills on the ice or trying to learn how to be a better teammate, better leader, better friend, you name it.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

You don't have to become something you're not to be better than you were.

A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better.

I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.

Last year, Eddie hadn't been strong enough to make the team. This year, he was stronger and bigger, a lot bigger, like he could be a model for a bodybuilding magazine. It was almost certain he would make the team this year.

You don't have to solve it, only evolve it!

What angers us in another person is more often than not an unhealed aspect of ourselves. If we had already resolved that particular issue,we would not be irritated by its reflection back to us.

True, I can fly at Mach-50 without effort and emit regenerative energy when I touch my brother, but mostly that's behind me.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched.

I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched. I

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.

I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.