Quotes about Personal Growth

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

The only time you should ever look back is to see how far you've come.

When life changes to be more difficult, change yourself to be stronger.

Ask today as you consider the many choices in your view, what is the highest and best use of your talents, skills and abilities? When you answer that, seize the opportunity to sharpen those qualities even more sharply by applying your focused effort.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Life is like an onion; you peel one layer off at a time and sometimes you weep.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Life is full of things you don't think you can do until you do them!

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

Life is like an onion; you peel off one layer at a time and sometimes you weep.

Each Journey is a work of Art!

Those who seek growth, embrace life and learn from the journey.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

Ive made a lot of mistakes in my life, but you have to make mistakes in order to learn from them. therefore, I learn something new every day.

Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

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.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.