Quotes about Personal Growth

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

I am much more my own man than I was when I was with the Stones.

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.

The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

There's no interference in stand-up. It's all the things it's hard to get in film: I get to have a wife, I get to have kids. I get to be sexual. I get to grow. I get to be a man.

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

The self-surmounter can never put up with the man who has ceased to be dissatisfied with himself.

Self confidence plays an important part in every aspect of man's life.

The man I want to be could easily beat me up.

Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.

The man who is so run down that he needs a vacation can never adjust or reform himself in two weeks. What he really needs is to re-transform his life.

I think we've all got a mirror man in our life - male, female, it's someone who love themselves before they can love anyone else.

I wanted to get us a place of our own with a little bit more space. The kitchen is just huge, because my mom... lives there, man, and she loves being in the kitchen.

The less men are fettered by tradition, the greater becomes the inward activity of their motives, and greater again in proportion to their outer restlessness.

I was a great many far cries from myself.

If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else.

We all make mistakes, probably the man most often.

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.