Quotes about Personal Growth

After years of struggle, my purpose became clear; for above all, I came to realize that America was truly the land where one could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.

The better you get, the better you better get.

But sometimes I have to get out of my comfort zone to stay motivated to do excellent work over the long term.

of professionals down in the trenches, I can safely say that virtually all of us could be doing more planning, more informally and more often, of our projects and our lives.

Since the publication of my first two books, Getting Things Done and Ready for Anything, I've had the opportunity to engage

Your best investment is yourself. There is nothing that compares to it.

Everybody's got somewhere to go. Just takes some folks longer to figure out where to.

Not everything can be learned safely in a classroom, Vega. Education is not so neat and tidy.

if you don't grow, you wither

You can't live someone else's life for them. Hell, it's hard enough living your own.

As I sit today, I am a genuine, often pleasant person. I am able to imitate a human being for long spurts of time, do solid work for a reputable organization, and have, over the breadth of time, proven to be an attentive father and husband. So how to reconcile my past with my current circumstances? Drugs, it seems to me, do not conjure demons, they access them. Was I faking it then, or am I faking it now? Which, you might ask, of my two selves did I make up?

Ask people for suggestions on how to improve, and if they're going to reject you for being imperfect, let them do it and get it over with.

You are the only one who can decide what is important to you in your relationship.

We all become lost children at one time or another.When no one else can find us, we must find ourselves.

Even the greatest of heroes and men Are less than what they might have been. —a saying of Mystarria

You play right up to your limit and then pass your limit and look back at your former limit and wave a hankie at it, embarking.

Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.

For I am born to tame you, Kate, And bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate Comfortable as other household Kates.

God me such uses send, Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend.

You live several lives while reading.

For the first time in my life, which had for years been sometimes witlessly gregarious, I discovered the pain of unwanted solitude. Like a felon suddenly thrown into solitary confinement, I found myself feeding off the unburned fat of inward resources I barely knew I possessed.

It was true that I had traveled great distances for one so young, but my spirit had remained landlocked, unacquainted with love and all but a stranger to death…I had absented myself in my smug and airless self-deprivation.

INTRODUCTION THE FIRST NEGOTIATION Let him who would move the world first move himself. —SOCRATES

have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves. We get in our own way.