Quotes about Personal Growth

I've never really been very good at marriage. It's one of my failures. I've tried my best, but I do realise the common denominator is me; it's something I'm doing.

Marriage is going to be that happy state in which we get all of the nurturance and care and love and empathy and even good advice that we didn't receive from our families.

Marriage should liberate, not incarcerate. Real love shouldn't limit a person's potential, it should expand it.

I grew up in this medical atmosphere, and thought I wanted to be a doctor. I was a hippie, didn't have a lot of goals.

When a man starts out to build a world, He starts first with himself

I have never met a man who has given me as much trouble as myself.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

Boys, be ambitious. Be ambitious not for money, not for selfish aggrandizement, not for the evanescent thing which men call fame. Be ambitious for the attainment of all that a man can be.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

Life is about growing and evolving. I feel like my life has been in stages, and the stages I went through when I was younger allowed me to grow into the man I am today.

Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Every man got a right to his own mistakes. Ain't no man that ain't made any.

When a man begins to know himself a little he will see in himself many things that are bound to horrify him. So long as a man is not horrified at himself he knows nothing about himself.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

Every man at some point in his life is gonna lose a battle. He's gonna fight and he's gonna lose. But what makes him a man is that in the midst of that battle, he does not lose himself.

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.

A Every man has a king and a fool in him and the one you talk to reacts.

The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain.

In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.