Quotes about Personal Growth

Guilt says, "If only you had done it better." Shame says, "If only you had been better.

Your most powerful method of helping other people is to help yourself.

Modesty is not a bad habit, after all,' the priest commented. 'Alhough humility would be better.

The happiest and most contented people are those who each day perform to make the best of their abilities.

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

A finished person is a boring person.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

Reforms should begin at home and stay there.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

They say you should not suffer through the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.

I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.

To aim at the best and to remain essentially ourselves is one and the same thing.