Quotes about Personal Growth

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

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

Great is the man who can overcome the world, but greater still is the man who can overcome himself, for he will have the world spinning on the palm of his hand.

A man can only grow to a certain point when alone; to grow further you need some "irrational shocks", like a wife and children; a dramatic change to your own life.

The people I met and the places I been Are all what make me the man I so proudly am.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

My future's about trying to be a better man

Every man is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

Man I just ended up on everybody guestlist. I'm just doing better than what everybody projected.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

We can't reach old age by another man's road.

I'm playing against men who are bigger and stronger than I'm used to. I've definitely got to bulk up at some point.

There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

A man must constantly exceed his level

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.