Quotes about Personal Growth

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

I now know we each have two lives: the one we learn by and the one we live after that. The

Nyka was like a man coming back from things I was yet to go through.

Sometimes there's someone who makes you feel so at home that you flourish.

And yet, as we have discovered, you are someone entirely different," he said gently. "You are no longer Ellyn the Fletcher." "And because of that you no longer love me?" "I will love you as long as I draw breath. But it may not be my right to love you any other way.

If you want to change anything about yourself, the best time to start is now. Ask yourself, "What am I willing to change now?" Just do that. That's more than enough. For now.

going backwards is not about creating change. It's about understanding.

Peter Drucker famously said, "Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

But for some reason, many people enjoy living in the past, especially if going back there lets them blame someone else for anything that's gone wrong in their lives. That's when clinging to the past becomes an interpersonal problem. We use the past as a weapon against others.

You can continue doing what you're doing for a long time. But you'll never become the person you want to be.

Getting better is its own reward. If we do that, we can never feel cheated.

Everyone around you has to recognize that you're changing. Relying on other people increases the degree of difficulty exponentially.

But there's a difference between being an achiever and a leader. Successful people become great leaders when they learn to shift the focus from themselves to others.

As a general rule, people in their 20s want to learn on the job. In their 30s they want to advance. And in their 40s they want to rule. No matter what their age, though, understanding their desires is like trying to pin down mercury.

We can always get better at something, even if it's just preserving the progress we've made. I

the higher you go, the more your problems are behavioral.

We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don't spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don't need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.

Today is the first day of the rest of my push-up.

travel is compost for the mind

When you're in college you haven't had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities—that's about it.

If people won't be shooting at me what will I be doing?" Maybe I could be her bodyguard. "I think you can learn to do anything you want." She smiled. "We'll talk about that when we get you home.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. —Patricia Hampl S

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.