Quotes about Personal Growth

Making me into a role model is placing too much importance on what I see as a work in progress.

Always work on the things you're not good at, because once you develop skills in those areas, you have no more fears.

The object of living is work, experience, happiness.

I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

I am just coming into my best years. This year I did new things; stretching and abdominal work.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.

Everyone tells you how they are going to be "special", but few do the work to get there. Do the work.

If the work jells a little bit in terms of being placed in the oeuvre, I don't care - as long as it works.

There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.

Ah! If man would but see that hope is from within and not from without - that he himself must work out his own salvation.

Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort.

I made a mistake and I'll work in the season to be better. It's part of life to be a man and don't try to hide something if it's broken.

I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

Your work is to find healing. And I find, for me, it's a little bit at a time, and eventually it's barely there. And the journey is finding what works for you and doing it.

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

This fight isn't about boxing, it's something deeper than that.

Ninety-nine percent of all work on self is attitudinal.

So many missionaries, intent on doing something, forget that His main work is to make something of them.

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

Although not of the quality of my later work, I feel there is some quality to it [my early work] in an art sense, and probably some additional quality in a biographical sense.