Quotes about Personal Growth

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

Where you come from now is much less important than where you're going. More and more of us are rooted in the future or the present tense as much as in the past. And home, we know, is not just the place where you happen to be born. It's the place where you become yourself.

Being the best is:applying yourself to your potential, putting out the best version of yourself.

There comes a time when you have to grow up and start thinking for yourself.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

I really believe in the 'Glow' and live my life that way. It's about being positive inside and out and being the best version of yourself possible.

Rise above yourself.

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don't prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

Life is always full of challenges. I believe you're never happy unless you're consistently making challenges for yourself.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.

We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth just stand.

I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things that happened when I finished 'Drown' was that I got busy living. I'd never travelled, I'd never seen anything. So I did as much travelling as my job teaching would allow.

Stop being childish. Use your time better - better yourself. Read a book, or do a workout exercise on YouTube.

I love Alain de Botton and listen to his little 'School of Life' YouTube vids as I do the dishes.

With everything that I've done with YouTube and podcasts for so many years, it's been: you can record it, edit, and then upload that day. With the book and documentary, it's been such a longer process.

I started writing music when I was 15 in my bedroom, and I'd post them on MySpace, and from there it shifted to doing covers on YouTube and building my Twitter.

I first went on YouTube aged 15, and people were saying, 'Why not do this cover?' Then they wanted to hear my own stuff live, and it escalated from there. Selena Gomez's parents found my videos and manage me to this day.

I moved to L.A. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do, but I really like the entertainment industry. I started to make videos on YouTube to get more comfortable being in front of the camera. The first video I filmed was with my sister.