Quotes about Personal Growth

A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take upon yourselves the burden of rearing families, will never set aside the desire to acquire knowledge.

Masculinity grows not out of conquering the woman, but only out of conquering the man—and not another man, as in war, but oneself.

Gordon Lewis

I try to keep it light and positive most of the time, whereas earlier on I didn't always do that.

He had won. True enough, he had won over nothing more than shadows within him. Still, there was that same feeling that he had had after he had come successfully up through the cellar and past Wolf with the canned food in his arms, and the feeling following that evening in which Wolf had come to him in a new, strangely submissive manner. In both cases, he had known a feeling that he had passed some kind of watershed in his life.

Age 14. — ...inwardly, we're much older than other girls our age. Even though I'm only fourteen... I feel I'm more of a person than a child...

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

Not only did they not know how to work dogs, but they did not know how to work themselves.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

People development should be a daily event, integrated into every aspect of your regular goings-on.

La gente trabaja todo el día, todos los días, intentando mejorar sus organizaciones y sus vidas. Intentando ayudar a sus familias, a sus empleados y a sus colegas, a sus clientes y a las comunidades en las que operan.

That is, when one realizes the fact of a descent or degradation and corrects its causes, this itself causes an ascent to a level even higher and greater than the original one.

Love child! What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.

Jacqueline Winspear

It could be argued that we leave everything most loved with each new experience that demands we grow.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

Some evenings I don't know where the old pains end and the new ones begin. Feels like the older you get the more they run into one long, deep aching.

The biggest mistake you can ever make it to compare yourself to others. - Gideon

Je voudrais apprendre à vivre enfin.

wherever a human being goes, there is a challenge. Be the best man you can, and your gods will look with favor upon you.

Damn, you know books and sports on television. You're a triple threat." "Those are the sorts of things that keep you alive when you pass seventy." In mild

Ambition means wanting better for yourself and expecting more out of life and aligning your skills and work ethic to achieve it. Ambition means being proactive about what you do and how you are rewarded.

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

People are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves. That is why they remain bound.