Quotes about Personal Growth

True greatness is not about comparisons with others. Rather, it's about being the best possible version of myself each and every day!

On his bedside table, between the reading lamp and the telephone, was his battered copy of David Copperfield. Homer didn't have to open the book to know how the story began. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show, he recited from memory.

Don't grown-ups ever get over things?

R?pinkit?s savo gyvenimu, - pasak? Zajoncas Harvardo studentams. - Jeigu jau tiek pasiek?te, j?s? profesiniai reikalai tur?t? susitvarkyti savaime.

If your first day of school, like your first tattoo, is a pilgrim experience—well, here was Jack's.

for a brief phase, you were expected to absorb love (and get enough), and then, for a much longer and more serious phase, you were expected to fulfill certain obligations. When

David Copperfield.

I am not saying that personal development is more important than winning; on the contrary, I am saying that enjoying the journey of self-discovery, by removing some of the pressure and angst associated with winning at all costs, is one way of helping you to win more often.

Don't use your upbringing as excuse, use it as power.

There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung. Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game. It's easy. Nothing you can make that can't be made. No one you can save that can't be saved. Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time. It's easy. Nothing you can know that isn't known. Nothing you can see that isn't shown. Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be. It's easy.

At Stanford, he had experienced an epiphany: "I'm not really actually here to learn French, or whatever, I'm learning how to be able to learn anything, and then I can go forth and have a life. . . . I don't need the class." Learning was an end unto itself.

Growth inside fuels growth outside.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out—by doing it.

We are each on our own journey; and while that journey always interacts with those of others, it remains uniquely ours. To understand it we need the eyes of a child.

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

The purpose of a college education is to question your father's values.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

When you learn your lessons, the pain goes away.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

Education is key. I graduated from high school; everyone needs to.

The only person who can fix education is the student.