Quotes about Personal Growth

I'm happy being myself, which I've never been before. I always hid in other people, or tried to find myself through the characters, or live out their lives, but I didn't have those things in mine.

Begin by instructing yourself, then you will receive instruction from others.

The secrets to happiness include enterprise, exploration of one's interests and the overcoming of obstacles.

Happy are those who evolve from within.

I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.

It isn't happiness I am concerned with but experience.

Self government is no less essential to the development, growth, and happiness of the individual than to the nation.

Shame makes people abandon their children and drink themselves to death. It also keeps us from true happiness. An apology is a glorious release.

What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.

To be happy, you must let go of all the negative beliefs, emotions and people that are holding you back in life.

Happiness is what you choose, what you follow, not what follows you. These are the things I have seen, these are the things I now know, these are the things I will carry with me as I go.

There is no greater thing than to be oneself, and it is never too late to do so.

Happiness is a journey that starts with you. If you can't find it within you, it will be logically impossible for you to make others around you happy.

Real optimism is not the pep talk you give yourself. It is earned through the labor involved in emotional housekeeping.

I had a job at a movie theater for like a year and a half and then a job at a health food store for like two years. Those were the only two jobs I ever had.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

I pray for forgiveness. For help and guidance. To be a better person. For the health of my family. For the world to be a better place.

We readily go to the health club when our doctor suggests we need more exercise, but we regularly neglect the 'mental health club' that our well-being more truly requires.

Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot. Because if you can fix yourself, it has a ripple effect.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

If you can't help me grow, there's no point with you being in my life.

The only competition you will ever face is with your own ignorance.

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

In order to help people, you have to first learn how to help yourself.