Quotes about Personal Growth

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." —Jim Rohn

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." —Henry Ford5

You have to live to really know things, my love

You have an ideal in your mind, and you're measuring yourself against your ideal, rather than against the actual progress you've made. This is why you're unhappy with what you've done, and it's probably why you're unhappy with everything in your life.

Success means that you're making bigger and better improvements that are valuable to others and satisfying to yourself. It means that you can't think of anything you'd rather be doing than what you're doing.

Ninja therapy is a completely different branch. I could never do that. I don't even like wearing black.

There was just something about the guy, the way he struggled with his faith, yearned to do the right thing in spire of the flaws that got in his way, that made her want to kiss him again~ Shelby Arroyo

But being a substitute parent? Him? It was a tall order for a guy who couldn't even keep a houseplant alive.

If you don't learn your lessons, you become one for everyone else

Enlightenment (or not) is an evolutionary process

I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

And sometime during that long hour that he held her, Lord Gareth de Montforte ceased being the man she'd married and became her best friend.

In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.

When you're always taking the next healthy step mentally and physically, you're as in charge of your life as you can be. But what happens after you take that action—how others react to you, whether you get that job or that award or that opportunity—isn't something you're in charge of. Wallowing in "what ifs" doesn't do you any good; in fact, it's a distraction from taking the next positive, powerful, passionate step forward.

The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that I'm one of the least competitive people you'll ever meet. Except with myself.

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

We treat our future selves as though they were our children, spending most of the hours of most of our days constructing tomorrows that we hope will make them happy.

At some point between our high chairs and our rocking chairs, we learn about later.

On job of parents - " Their job is to love you, protect you as best as they can, try to understand you, and enjoy your laughter. I hope they will give you both roots and wings. When they give you roots, you will feel safe, loved, and secure, knowing they genuinely want to understand the person you are. When they give you wings, you will feel free to think whatever you want to think, free to explore the world of your heart and mind and the world outside".

As our children turn even five or six degrees away from us, we have to be aware of our fear and our excitement and our hope for them. And as that five or sex degrees turns into ten or twenty degrees, even ninety degrees, we have to monitor those feelings every step of the way-and ultimately realize that our child is another human being and not necessarily and extension of us.

By neglecting the ingredients of genuine motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose—they limit what each of us can achieve.

When the reward is the activity itself—deepening learning, delighting customers, doing one's best—there are no shortcuts. The only route to the destination is the high road. In some sense, it's impossible to act unethically because the person who's disadvantaged isn't a competitor but yourself.

If you have a broken heart, it means you have done something big enough and important enough and valuable enough to have broken your heart.

At the heart of all boldness regrets is the thwarted possibility of growth. The failure to become the person—happier, braver, more evolved—one could have been. The failure to accomplish a few important goals within the limited span of a single life.