Quotes about Personal Growth

My definition of a hero is a man who tests himself by a series of ordeals, each more difficult than the last; he's not competing in the world at all, he's competing only against himself.

I grew here; you flew here.

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

I learnt the most important thing you have to know: how to look after yourself. To stand by your own decisions. I didn't become an author during my time in Paris, but that wasn't important. I took the first step towards becoming a human being with self-awareness. The big step forward after that discovery I had made -- that I am myself and nobody else -- while standing outside the community centre in Sveg.

Solitude is the furnace in which transformation takes place.

All that had gone before was useless, and some of it was worse.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

As to conforming outwardly and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that.

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees

We should come home from far, from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day, with new experience and character.

I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead. The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With

I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account; for, beside that before he has fairly learned it I may have found out another for myself, I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one, be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead.

We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead. The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your own clothes.

Life wears us, uses us -- but we wear it and use it in return, and it is blind, whereas we, after a fashion, see.

Yes, you're changed; you've got new ideas over here, her friend continued. I hope so, said Isabel, one should get as many new ideas as possible. Yes, but they shouldn't interfere with the old ones when the old ones have been the right ones.

Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.