Quotes about Personal Growth

The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

the true competition is the competition of the individual with himself—his present seeking to excel his past.

As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking.

Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social duty. For

Hang out with people who are better than you and you cannot help but improve." Pabrai acts on this advice to a degree that would horrify many people. "When I meet someone for the first time, I evaluate them afterwards and say, 'Will it make me better or worse to have a relationship with this person?'" If the answer is worse, he says, "I'll cut him out.

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Personal finance, like most important aspects of life, is a never-ending quest. The competent investor never stops learning.

Never mind what others do do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.

Viktor E. Frankl] joked that in contrast to Freud's and Adler's "depth psychology," which emphasizes delving into an individual's past and his or her unconscious instincts and desires, he practiced "height psychology," which focuses on a person's future and his or her conscious decisions and actions...His goal was to provoke people into realizing that they could and should exercise their capacity for choice to achieve their own goals.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we cant tolerate.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

He thought often these days of the words that ended the traditional marriage ceremony of the Anishinaabeg. You will share the same fire. You will hang your garments together. You will help one another. You will walk the same trail. You will look after one another. Be kind to one another. Be kind to your children. He hadn't always been careful to abide by these simple instructions. But a man could change

My childhood ended that summer. I learned the word murder. But it is not enough to be told a word as big as that...You have to live with it, carry it around with you. You have to...see it from different angles, at different times of day, in different light, until you understand, until it enters you.

William McIlvanney

Your personal growth as a leader will be directly tied to your ability to give and receive feedback.

Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

To nurture your career, it makes sense to cultivate your strengths. To nurture your moral core, it is necessary to confront your weaknesses.

The first big thing suffering does is it drags you deeper into yourself.

Just as he was slowly bringing order to his own internal life, he would also bring order to his language.