Quotes about Personal Growth

If you won't improve yourself, who will?

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

The person I like most is the one who points out my defects

I've got so much wisdom and have lived through so much life that I feel more powerful than I ever have.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself.

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

Everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowing.

The fatal flaw of human wisdom is that it promises that you can change your relationships without needing to change yourself.

For me to be a saint means to be myself. Therefore the problem of sanctity and salvation is in fact the problem of finding out who I am and of discovering my true self.

Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.

In these simple words, Lord, is it I? lies the beginning of wisdom and the pathway to personal conversion and lasting change.

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom.

You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.

Until the inner teacher opens, all outside teaching is in vain.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

Liberty is the first condition of growth. Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others. We talk foolishly against material civilisation. The grapes are sour.

Again, we must consider, religion is a [matter of] growth, not a mass of foolish words.

His father, Joshua Wooden, had repeatedly stressed he should never try to be better than someone else, but that he should never cease to try and become the best that he could be.

Coach Wooden preached against comparisons and external rewards, and for focusing on becoming your best.

cuando se trata de talento: cuanto más ayude usted a las personas a ser mejores, más se ayudan ellas entre sí a ser mejores.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.