Quotes about Personal Growth

People change and mature.

Personality rise as comparison dies.

As you grow wiser, so does your personality.

It's ironic how your comfort zone can be tiring sometimes.

The hardest thing to face in life is the truth about yourself

Conditioning was something I always shied away from, now I've learnt that training never stops.

Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.

Truth will screw with you every which way, before it lets you to be anywhere near itself.

No book dropped from "up there". If it did, you say, then something is screwed up somewhere between your neck, and the top of your head.

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.

Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.

We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves.

here I'm finally doing this thing that I've known I should be doing since I was in eleventh grade. I was certain, like all of us were, that we were doing the right thing.

It doesn't necessarily have to be about getting anywhere, but about getting through the process of fulfilling your own possibilities.

Chabon's success can be traced back to three requirements: talent, luck, and discipline. "Discipline," he says, "is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two.

You see, the past is what you make of it. You can use it to hurt yourself or others or you can use it to make yourself strong. I'm strong, Harry. Now, tell me why you came to vist me today.

I'm talking about a little truth-in-packaging here. To be perfectly frank, you don't quite look like yourself. And if you walk around looking like someone other than who you are, you could end up getting the wrong job, the wrong friends, who knows what-all. You could end up with somebody else's life. I shrugged again, and smiled. This is my life, I said. It doesn't seem like the wrong one.

You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.

Because, the moment you chose to start a small business, Sarah, you unwittingly chose to play a significantly larger game than any game you had ever played before.

You might say that, while going to work on the business, people begin to realize that it is a powerful metaphor for going to work on their lives.

For a long time I've wanted to apologize for my behavior that year, but I'm not sure how or even if it would be sincere. How does the man (woman) apologize for the boy (girl)? (132)

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the life you wanted to live-with the rough and the smooth, the good and the bad-but yours, shaped by your own choices, and not someone else's.

Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to becomes master of your own destiny, you have more to learn.