Quotes about Personal Growth

You are in charge of your own positive direction. (by J. Bert Freeman)

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

There is always some beauty in life. Look up Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and get on with it. Build you a rainbow. Do it yourself! If you can't do that, build your mind near one. Learn how to fly. Then Ã¢â'¬Â¦ soar a little.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

We simply have to learn how to skillfully get out of our own way. Getting out of our own way allows the deep reservoirs of peace and happiness within us to reveal themselves so we may gain more ready access to them.

If you could double the number of hours that you were truly alive each day then, in effect, you would be doubling your life expectancy.

Never follow somebody else's path it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone...the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.

Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.""...If you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so.

Before we can conquer the world, we must first conquer the self.

J. Patrick Gannon

The life of a healthy individual is characterized by fears, conflicting feelings, doubts, frustrations, as much as by the positive features. The main thing is that the man or woman feels he or she is living his or her own life, taking responsibility for action or inaction, and able to take credit for success and blame for failure. In one language it can be said that the individual has emerged from dependence to independence, or to autonomy.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

So I stayed with the old priest who was my teacher, but lots of unanswered questions always came up. Then I thought, "Why don't you teach me anything?" But my teacher didn't care. He just lived. He just let me be alive every day.

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

The past is where you learned the lesson. The future is where you apply the lesson Don't give up in the middle!

Even god doesn't propose to judge a man till his last days, why should you and I?

It's a never ending battle of making your cars better and also trying to be better yourself.

We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come.

It's not hard to grow when you know that you just don't know.

I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.

Damon Galgut

I've gone from mistrusting my own instincts to knowing true confidence.