Quotes about Personal Growth

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue.

Either you reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on a date.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one's own appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ell show you somebody who has never achieved much.

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new man of himself.

It is only error in judgement to make a mistake, but it shows infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

I made a mistake today, I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

Failure is an event, never a person.

If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.

A man with few friends is only half-developed; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed. He cannot unlock them himself, he cannot even discover them; friends alone can stimulate him and open him.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.