Quotes about Personal Growth

In the beginning, I aspired just to make a comfortable living in acting. I still feel the same - it's just that my standards have gone up, so my comfort level is higher as well.

They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.

I, personally, have standards that I have set for myself. I'd like to achieve those and look back without regret.

When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

When I was in high school, my mom hated football. But then, the more I played, the more it grew on her. This game has done a lot for my family - not just from a financial standpoint, but it also helped bring my family together.

I think it gets a little harder as you find more success. As success happens, you have to figure out this question of 'What I am going to do next that stands out?' Because then you get seen as 'this thing,' which is a part of you. But it's not really you.

You always have to keep evolving. You're always trying to improve. If you're at a standstill, you're falling behind.

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

I think that if there was one mistake that I took away, it would affect the man that I am today.

Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.

I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.

A man can become so accustomed to the thought of his own faults that he will begin to cherish them as charming little 'personal characteristics.'

I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.

I feel like, as women and men and people on the planet, you just have to do the best with what life gives you.

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.