Quotes about Personal Growth

would be grown up and living their own lives by now, of course, but

Every relationship we have in our lives, whether it lasts five hours with a stranger on a plane or fifty years with our soulmate, is meant to teach us something.

Love should almost never make you cry. If you've sobbed or had too many drinks or felt your stomach knot up over a guy more than once for every month you've been together, this is not the love you were meant to have. Thank him for the lessons and move on.

If you don't like my words, you are at liberty to leave at any time, Master assured me. I want nothing from you but your own improvement. Stay only if you feel benefited.

If we want to grow as teachers -- we must do something alien to academic culture: we must talk to each other about our inner lives -- risky stuff in a profession that fears the personal and seeks safety in the technical, the distant, the abstract.

You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

Well, at least she doesn't have to be a housewife the rest of her life," she said. "What in the hell do you have against housewives?" I said. "I was raised by one," Savannah said. "And it almost ruined my life." "I got knocked around by a shrimper when I was a kid," said Luke, "but I never blamed the shrimp.

My father managed to change his entire life after I wrote a novel about his brutal regime as a family man. It took resoluteness and courage for my father to change, and I need to acknowledge that.

Now here is the good news: while it's true that none of us can know everything, we can all know more tomorrow than we do today

Successful people are those who have learned how to learn. Whether college-educated or self-educated, successful people depend on themselves, not others, for their own knowledge, skills, and wisdom. People who are committed to life-long learning have everything they need to shape their own.

These are lessons Bob Taylor of Taylor Guitars certainly takes to heart.

No man who is resolved to make the most of himself,' said Lincoln, 'can spare time for personal contention.

Once he found learning was easy, his whole life changed.

Pero se necesita carácter y dominio de sí mismo para ser comprensivo y capaz de perdonar.

Cuando llegué a reconocer que esta actitud me estaba llevando a la quiebra, probé una táctica distinta. Empecé a decir: "En nuestra agencia hemos cometido tantos errores, que con frecuencia me siento avergonzado. Es posible que nos hayamos equivocado en su caso. Dígame cómo fue".

I taught President Roosevelt how to handle a car with a lot of unusual gadgets, but he taught me a lot about the fine art of handling people.

Say to yourself over and over: "My peace of mind, my happiness, my health, and perhaps even my income will, in the long run, depend largely on applying the old, obvious, and eternal truths taught in this book.

As I look back now I wonder how I was ever able to sell anything. I lost years of my life in scrapping and arguing. I keep my mouth shut now. It pays.

Pero el hombre que dispone de conocimientos técnicos más la habilidad de expresar sus ideas, para asumir la dirección, y para despertar entusiasmo entre los demás, esa persona tiene posibilidades de aumentar indefinidamente sus ingresos.

I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.

Por medio de la crítica nunca provocamos cambios duraderos, y con frecuencia creamos resentimiento.

Todos los hombres que encuentro son superiores a mí en algún sentido; y en tal sentido puedo aprender de todos".

Genuine transformation of the whole person into the goodness and power seen in Jesus and his "Abba" Father—the only transformation adequate to the human self—remains the necessary goal of human life.