Quotes about Personal Growth

If a man should conquer in battle a thousand and a thousand more, and another should conquer himself, his would be the greater victory, because the greatest of victories is the victory over oneself.

I'm probably more of a new man. I'm not particularly alpha. 'Nourish and nurture' are my watchwords as opposed to 'search and destroy'.

I'm working it out, man. I'm working through some stuff, trying to find my way like everyone.

A man spends the first half of his life learning habits that shorten the other half.

Man is his own worst enemy. [Lat., Nihil inimicius quam sibi ipse.]

In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.

A man must always study, but he must not always go to school: what a contemptible thing is an old abecedarian!

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.

It is with men as with other things. The mullein needs only a year, but the oak a century, and the greatest men are those who have continued to grow as long as they have lived.

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

I have experienced a lot in my life - some good, some bad ­­- but all of those experiences make up the man I am today.

MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

Some people are boys longer than others.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!