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Quotes about Personal Growth

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?
~ Louis L'Amour
It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.
~ Matthew McConaughey
Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Obstacles! Man needs obstacles to get matured!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.
~ Merrill Markoe
I have engaged in hyper-male culture, and I'm learning about it, and I'm learning how I can change and help young boys and young men change.
~ Nate Parker
Men at an earlier age, get the feminine aspects of them wrung out in a variety of ways.
~ Peter Buffett
In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.
~ Raekwon
A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.
~ Rajneesh
I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made
~ Henry David Thoreau
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.
~ Hermann Hesse
Forget the brother and resume the man.
~ Homer
Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]
~ Horace
He's a good man," Ranger said. "And you?" "I'm better.
~ Janet Evanovich
The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Man is emphatically self-made.
~ John Henry Newman
Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.
~ John Stuart Mill
My mom died of cancer when I was really young. I'm not someone who tries to work out their own stuff with a role, but I think that happened despite my best efforts to keep myself separate from it.
~ Sarah Polley
I've learned from people, being in the weird situations that I get in. Like, dressed as my mom kissing Seth Rogen - that's a thing that happened.
~ Lilly Singh
One of the blessings of becoming an adult is finally seeing my mom and dad as people, not just parents.
~ Sara Shandler
My parents are the people that led me here. My mom helped me learn to sing and she travels with me.
~ Coco Jones