Quotes about Personal Growth

Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.

Now that we're men, I changed my underwear.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

I'm done with men... I'm going to be alone. I have no luck with relationships. I don't think I'm made for marriage.

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

How do you expect to arrive at the end of your own journey if you take the road to another man's city?

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

Each man's life represents a road toward himself, an attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

I'm a better person now, and not only that - I'm a better man

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

The world exists for the education of each man.

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

Responsiblity is the great developer of men.

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.

We've turned into a nation of mothers to our men. I think it's a dreadful mistake that doesn't benefit anybody.

You know, there's nobody where I've said, 'Man, I really want that guy's career.' I mean, each of us has to make our own go of it.