Quotes about Personal Growth

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

Success is something you attract by the person you become. If you want to have more, you must become more.

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.

Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.

Just make people better at something they want to be better at.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

Be okay with who you are. And that you can't choose your parents or what life you were born into, but you can choose the kind of person you want to be.

One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter.

Resist the temptation to compare yourself to others. This is crucial in order to be able to manifest whatever you want.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

It takes time to be who you really want to be. It doesn't happen overnight.

You don't get what you want in life. You get who you are.

Whatever God wants to do through you, He will do in you first. You've got to be what you want to see.

And my parents made me want i am. So what? We get stuff from our parents, but we also get stuff from the world around us. From people around us. And at the end of the day, we're us.

There are certain fans who want me to rap about the same exact thing, but it's time to grow up.

It's never too late to make the right decision in your life. I want fathers to go grab their sons, tell them you love them and be more involved in their lives.

The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

And lot of Asian audiences and reporters don't like me to act as a bad guy. But I think I want to become an actor, I want to try different way.

When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.

Experience is something you get when you don't really want it.