Quotes about Personal Growth

It is an unwise man who constantly looks into the past to condemn himself. You breathe life today, and it is what you do now that will see you through to tomorrow.

Your body is the temporary temple of your Spirit. What you keep around you in the extended temple of your home needs to change as you change and grow, so that it reflects who you are. Particularly if you are engaged in any kind of self-improvement work, you need to update your environment regularly. So get into the habit of leaving a trail of discarded clutter in your wake, and start to think of it as a sign of your progression!

Just because I'd spent the last five years of my life dealing with diapers and dirty dishes didn't mean my brain had turned into Gerber Oatmeal & Banana Cereal.

He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.

You gotta go through a special kind of hell or a special kind of love to change who you are inside.

Laura was not a lonely teenaged girl anymore. She was fifty-five years old. She was a mother, a cancer survivor, a businesswoman. This was her life, Not Nick

That man needs to build a bridge to get over himself.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.

It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

If I were but a man who would be tall, I would be me.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.