Quotes about Personal Growth

A man shrinks or expands into the degree and nature of his ambition. Ambition needs to be cultivated and refined, and yet has no teachers.

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education.

I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

School is one thing. Education is another. The two don't always overlap. Whether you're in school or not, it's always your job to get yourself an education.

Engineers have a very limited education and background, I think you need to move into the broader humanities in order to become a total person.

By nature all people are alike, but by education become different

The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

I learn, I earn.

I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt.

I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.

Your emotional energy only cares about how successful you are at being yourself.

It's not the burden of your mate or anyone else to heal your emotional issues.

Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

Excellence! We all want it from others and we should want it from ourselves.

Blossoming out through one's comfort zone should be well meaning so as to achieve newer levels of excellence