Quotes about Personal Growth

Nowadays, I want to be smart, but back then, I'm afraid I wanted to seem smart, too.

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

I want to show Miss Rose how much more I can do this year because she has helped me so much with my English.

Sift each of us through the great sieve of circumstance and you have a residue, great or small as the case may be, that is the man or the woman.

There are some years in our lives that we would not want to live again. But even these years will pass away, and the lessons learned will be a future blessing.

We each do the best we can. My best may not be as good as your best, but it's my best. The fact is we know when we are doing our best and when we are not. If we are not doing our best, it leaves us with a gnawing hunger and frustration. But when we do our best, we experience a peace.

The brain is a goal-seeking organism. Setting a goal creates structural tension in your brain, which will seek to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be, who you are and who you want to become. If you don't set goals, your mind will become stagnant. Goal setting is good stewardship of your right-brain imagination. It's also great for your prayer life.

We usually focus on what we're doing or where we're going, but God's primary concern is who we're becoming in the process.

Luke 2:52: May you grow in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Remember our definition of a winning attitude: a positive expectation of your efforts with an acceptance that whatever results you get are a perfect reflection of your level of development and what you need to learn to do better.

I used to believe everything I read, but now I'm steppin' out.

The reader learns the language of herself; she is humanly enhanced, enlarging the previously constricting circle that made up the border of what she's been... her consciousness has been expanded.

In order to change conditions outside ourselves, whether they concern the environment or relations with others, we must first change within ourselves.

A traveller learns more than a passenger.

Rehabilitation: Demonstrate through your actions that you've learned your lesson.

Of course, every few years you may be shocked when someone responds to your question "Do you really believe that?" with a very firm "yes." If so, be reachable yourself and listen to what the person has to say. A person who's brave enough to say "yes" to this question, and to stick by that answer, probably has some legitimate issues and will be happier and more productive if you iron those issues out.

At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.

Instead of revenge, transcend.

What is human is to make a difference to the world, to act on it, to interact with others, and, together, to transform the environment and themselves. If this process is prevented, we become less than human; we are harmed.

Mark Oppenheimer

I've grown a lot, and I'm learning every week.

Conflict reveals character--in life and in the novel.

Harness your dragons. Turn them into stories.