Quotes about Personal Growth

People make mistakes. You can either let it eat away at you from the inside until you're hallowed out and have nothing good left. Or you can learn to accept that none of us can change our past. All we can do is move forward and make something better out of the rest of our days

How far we've come, Jeff," Brian whispered to the cold, wet streets. "How far the geeky boys have come.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer. It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.

A day will dawn when you will laugh at your past efforts. What you realize on the day you laugh is also here and now

First set yourself right, and only then set out to improve others. Change the hearts of men and the world will surely change. But one must begin somewhere; and one can only begin with oneself.

Expository preaching will impact your life. It can help you grow personally in knowledge and obedience by your disciplined exposure to God's Word conserve time and energy used in choosing a sermon for each week balance your area of "expertise" and preferred topics with the breadth of God's thoughts in the Bible

I've never done grey before, but I suspect it's one of those things that, tried once, you can never resile from.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore that means they've given up on you…you may not want to hear it but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you and want to make you better.

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we'd all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can't accurately do that, how can we tell if we're getting better or worse?

I'd compare college tuition to paying for a personal trainer at an athletic club. We professors play the roles of trainers, giving people access to the equipment (books, labs, our expertise) and after that, it is our job to be demanding.

Cuando cometes errores y nadie te lo indica, significa que ya se han dado por vencidos contigo.

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better.

I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it's not all for naught, and it's meaningful, because it makes you who you are.

My thinking is my possession; always ready to exchange for a better version of that.

Singleness can be a wonderful furnace.

The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.

I have always believed that each man makes his own happiness and is responsible for his own problems.