Quotes about Personal Growth

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people.

The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.

It is not truth, justice, liberty, that men seek; they seek only themselves. - And oh, that they knew how to seek themselves aright!

Until he reached thirty, Randy felt bad about the fact that he was not socially deft. Now he doesn't give a damn. Pretty soon he'll probably start being proud of it.

From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything

She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand her. She knows that's impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.

Religion asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own.

people are constantly changing and growing.do not cling to a limited disconnected, negative image of a person in the past.see that person now.your relationship is always live and changing.

Can you help me to better understand how to do that? Yes. Go first to your Highest Thought about yourself. Imagine the you that you would be if you lived that thought every day. Imagine what you would think, do, and say, and how you would respond to what others do and say. Do you see any difference between that projection and what you think, do, and say now?

El secreto más profundo es que la vida no es un proceso de descubrimiento, sino un proceso de creación. No te estás descubriendo a ti mismo, sino creándote desde cero. No busques entonces descubrir Quién Eres, sino determinar Quién Quieres Ser.

My brain was all right back then; it didn't get stuck in ruts.

Forget the midlife crisis," I say. "It's all about the sixth-life crisis.

Just be careful of forming close relationships, Craig. Focus on Yourself. Only then does healing take place.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

If I live a day and I don't know a little more than I did the day before, I think I wasted that day.

We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years old, but now only serve to hold us back. And, while those around us may have no problem correcting our minor flaws, they let the big ones slide, because it would mean attacking who we are.

All the things you've been trying to get from these relationships—freedom, understanding, fairness, acceptance—are exactly the things that you never got from your mom. So every time you load all that unfinished business onto your partner, you're setting yourself up for another disappointment. Because as an adult, the only person who can give you those things is you.

I wish she were receptive enough to discuss what I learned, but you can't expect the same person who wounded you to heal you. So

Instead of putting others down, try improving yourself instead. The only person you have a right to compete with is you.

Project Hollywood was bringing me out of my solipsistic shell.

Project Hollywood was bringing me out of my solipsistic shell. It was giving me the resources I needed to be a leader; it was teaching me how to walk the tightrope of group dynamics; it was helping me learn to let go of petty things like personal property, solitude, cleanliness, sanity, and sleep.