Quotes about Personal Growth

Just because you are CEO, don't think you have landed. You must continually increase your learning, the way you think, and the way you approach the organization. I've never forgotten that.

A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances will carve him out as well." ? Frederick Douglass

It was what it was. And I try to believe that we are who we become because of every single thing that happens to us. My goal is to keep heading for a better place.

until we can identify the root cause of our actions, we are doomed to make some version of the same mistakes again and again.

But when you get to where I am in life, you realize that we are who we end up being because of each and every experience we've had. To pull one would unravel the entire masterpiece." I

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. – Author Unknown

To be clear: I am not anti-marriage. I am anti-marrying-people-who-suck-at-life-and-will-suck-the-life-out-of-you.

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I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

This is what being alive's all about, all those fucked up feelings. You've got to have them; when you stop, watch out.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.

My purpose on this planet is to live up to my potential, everything else just adds to the experience.

No man is obliged to learn and know every thing; this can neither be sought nor required, for it is utterly impossible; yet all persons are under some obligation to improve their own understanding; otherwise it will be a barren desert, or a forest overgrown with weeds and brambles. Universal ignorance or infinite errors will overspread the mind which is utterly neglected and lies without any cultivation. Skill

All anyone can see in a birthchart are tendencies that will become facts if he does not do something to alter them.

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not because it counts more than the previous ones but because once they are included in a life, events are arranged in an order that is not chronological but, rather, corresponds to an inner architecture.

Hep ba??n arkaya dönük mü ilerlersin sen- ya da: -Gördü?ün ?ey hep geride kalan m?d?r?- ya da daha do?rusu: -Yaln?z geçmi?e mi senin yolculu?un?

Os valores institucionalizados que a escola inculca são valores quantificados. A escola inicia os jovens num mundo onde tudo pode ser medido, inclusive a imaginação e o próprio homem. Mas o crescimento pessoal não é coisa mensurável.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them

Leaders should determine to spend a minimum of half an hour a day reading books that feed the soul and stimulate the mind.

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.