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Quotes about Personal Growth

Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
~ Og Mandino
Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.
~ James Arthur Ray
Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't.
~ Malcolm X
If we build the people, they'll build the business
~ Brownie Wise
Relief has its place. But what the people need is not relief, but release - release of their own potential for development.
~ Y. C. James Yen
You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.
~ Rumi
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.
~ Kathy Ireland
Success in this industry is not in finding the right person, but in becoming the right person." mlmtalkies.com
~ Unknown
Exponential business growth comes from personal development.
~ Richie Norton
I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
~ Venus Williams
A car is a big thing for anyone going into adulthood, it's a big seminal moment.
~ Michael Bay
Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.
~ Tupac Shakur
It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.
~ S. I. Hayakawa
Personal development - the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.
~ Jim Rohn
I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
~ Carly Fiorina
Maybe everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. If I can be perfect why can't you?
~ Daniel Tosh
None of what we've learned seems very relevant when our lover leaves us, when our child has a tantrum in the supermarket, when we're insulted by our colleague.
~ Pema Chodron
If we make the journey to get security, we're completely missing the point.
~ Pema Chodron
We can begin to relate with what's underneath all the bubbles and burps and farts, all the stuff that comes out and expresses itself as uptight, controlling, manipulative behavior, or whatever it is.
~ Pema Chodron
Those events and people in our lives who trigger our unresolved issues could be regarded as good news. We don't have to go hunting for anything. We don't need to try to create situations in which we reach our limit. They occur all by themselves, with clockwork regularity.
~ Pema Chodron
If we always stay in that narrow zone, how are we going to grow?
~ Pema Chodron
Calm down, she tells herself. Just because this has never happened to you before. Because you have reached the ripe age of thirty-one without knowing this peculiar derangement. For derangement is what it surely is; only by stern physical effort can she keep herself from looking at him, touching him.
~ Penelope Lively
We sit on the floor in front of his oscillating fan and talk sci-fi, and I am thinking how strange this is that I should be sitting peacefully with Henry Stagg in his bedroom when only a week or so ago he punched me in the face for no reason whatsoever.
~ Pete Hautman