Quotes about Personal Growth

The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.

The idea of physical strain and discipline, the question of how and when you leave that life behind - they're things I'm familiar with on one level or another.

My professional life, in a strange way, has always been going up, up, up, while my personal life was just the complete opposite.

Throughout my life, I've seen that everybody has had something to teach me and, strangely, it's always something relevant to what I'm going through at that point.

I've definitely grown up, but I'm the same Sadie now that I would have been, even if I wasn't on 'Stranger Things.'

Translating any insights I have for strangers' lives into positive action in my own has proved a challenge. While I've learned a lot about what everyone else is thinking, I fail miserably to use such knowledge in my private relationships.

I grew up playing with kids who were the kids of people my parents grew up playing with, and they know me like nobody else. I thought everybody was that way when I was growing up, and then I left to go to college, and I realised that the world is full of strangers.

I ain't as good as I'm gonna get, but I'm better than I used to be.

Sometimes, I am my own worst enemy.

One of these days I'm gonna love me And feel the joy of sweet release One of these days I'll rise above me And at last I'll find some peace And then I'm gonna smile a little And maybe even laugh a little But one of these days... I'm gonna love me

One takes great pleasure in seeing children acquire skills one does not have, seeing them become, thankfully, different from oneself.

Ask yourself where you are now, and where you want to be instead. Ask yourself what you're willing to do to get there. Then make a plan to get there. Act on it.

you can't keep improving if you fear others will disapprove of what you're doing.

The greatest battles you will ever fight are with yourself, and you must always be your toughest opponent. Always demand more of yourself than others demand of you.

You can't make things better until you stop me asking them worse.

I am on a path of understanding more and more about myself every day and shifting my perspective just like my father did. I'm becoming more conscious about what I'm ignoring or denying, and my learning process has become faster, my struggles fewer and less intense.

We break down our day and laugh about which of us fucked up the worst. There is no greater superpower than the ability to say "This is who I am." Most people push that away, because they don't want to be judged. Winners don't care. They judge themselves, and live with the verdict. Think about how much energy and time go into trying to be someone or something you're not. How much further along would you be if you put that same effort into being yourself?

Every year, improve your knowledge résumé through self-education. Otherwise, you'll have to claw, scratch, or repeat your way to semi-success in life.

Most of us would rather claim to have always been perfect that admit how much we have grown.

Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.

Investing in yourself is the most important investment you'll ever make in your life. . . . There's no financial investment that'll ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what's going to really provide economic freedom. . . . It's those skill sets that really make that happen." This

We do not rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training." —Archilochus

You're not responsible for the hand of cards you were dealt. You're responsible for maxing out what you were given.

a person's success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.