Quotes about Personal Growth

At the end of the day the fence were still not complete but my family had witnessed my new strength and they I could be the man

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves - their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

We know very little about self-development. But we do know one thing: People in general, and knowledge workers in particular, grow according to the demands they make on themselves. They grow according to what they consider to be achievement and attainment. If they demand little of themselves, they will remain stunted. If they demand a good deal of themselves, they will grow to giant stature--without any more effort than is expended by the non-achievers.

Of all the important pieces of self-knowledge, understanding how you learn is the easiest to acquire.

The subject of this book is managing oneself for effectiveness.

I soon learned that there is no "effective personality

Families are delicate things. Who's to say why or how we end up the way we do or become who we are? Parents make mistakes. A child's job is to overcome those mistakes. We can blame our parents - and our own past - for only so long before it becomes an excuse and a crutch. That's my position on family dynamics and I'm sticking to it. Sometimes you just have to assume responsibility for your own life and grow up.

I'm not good at this yet" and to take steps to change that.

Stephen summarizes, "It's when you look back and you learn how much you've grown and changed.

Like many Peace Corps volunteers all over the world, I found that the parent visit was a kind of revelation: suddenly I saw how much I had learned and how much I had forgotten.

It was as if we'd only been gone the weekend. Or had we been gone a lifetime. Part of that was because when you've lived in Alaska, living in other places seems easier, less challenging, less threatening. Alaska had enlarged each of us. No one is ever the same after coming back from Alaska.

In Chapter 8, I argued that personal vision, by itself, is not the key to releasing the energy of the creative process. The key is "creative tension," the tension between vision and reality. The most effective people are those who can "hold" their vision while remaining committed to seeing current reality clearly.

Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

to follow her own path and leave him. Even the kids had complained when they were growing

We have to be something more than the accumulation of things that happen to us, don't you think?

When you can't let your stuff go, your stuff won't let you move forward.

Now that all of our children were out of the house, she was looking forward to creating a new, more fulfilling life. So was I—or so I thought. I explored other interests, including giving speeches on leadership.

If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

First, humiliation, then humility, he would have said. And then comes humanity as a matter of course.

The man contains—not the boy—but earlier men

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

Lyra had to adjust to her new sense of her own story, and that couldn't be done in a day.