Quotes about Personal Growth

for real growth, it is necessary to find people whose opinions are interesting and whose conversation is stimulating. A more difficult, but in the long run even more useful, skill to acquire is the ability to tolerate solitude, and to even enjoy it.

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

The Power of Influence I've realized that I choose not to spend much time with people who are trying to change me. If they take me on as a project to "fix," I don't respond well. But when they simply enter my life and accept me unconditionally, I become a different person because of their influence.

It means that we work on our side of the relationship, no matter what happens on the other side. We don't change them; we change ourselves.

What do you expect from yourself? Is it realistic? Is it even possible? Is it in line with your passions and goals? Is it actually someone else's expectation that you have assumed for yourself? Are you sabotaging your confidence with unattainable or unnecessary ideals?

Just do your best; it'll always be enough. And leave the past to your biographers.

Where you are is never who you are.

accepting personal responsibility for everything you experience is critical to ultimately

Your tormentors, past, present, and future, are lost in their own confusion and anguish. They didn't set out to hurt you, but to make some sense of a world that was hurting them.

Without words like blame, victim, and fault, I do believe about 50% of the unhappiness in the world would be cured.

I find myself whispering an apology to the person I used to be.

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Joyce, you know you can't pick a fight with everyone who has something to say about us, don't you?' 'I know,' she whispered into the darkness. 'There's too many of them, and not enough hours in the day.' 'It's funny,' said Hubert. 'Until me came to this country me went my whole life thinking me was just plain old Hubert Bird and then me come and find that actually me the devil himself.

There is nothing more debilitating than regret, and no anger worse than that which is directed at yourself.

The thing I loved the most - and still love the most about teaching - is that you can connect with an individual or a group, and see that individual or group exceed their limits.

The benchmark to beat is yourself and your current condition.

TO reach some major goal or milestone of achievement and sustain it, you will need a solid sense of who you are: your own history, your ideas and aspirations, your strengths and weaknesses, the values and standards you hold, and other things which make you you. Who you have been is a key to who you might become or what you might need to overcome, to establish your special place on the planet.

Perfection is a theory. You cannot be a perfect human being, perfect artist. You cannot be a perfect husband, you cannot be a perfect father probably and probably I am not. But go through your daily routine with hope you will be a little better in all respects, and do something meaningful

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

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I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

The leader beyond the millennium will not be the leader who has learned the lessons of how to do.... The leader of today and the future will be focused on how to be ... how to develop quality, character, mind-set, values, principles, and courage. —Frances Hesselbein

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Teenage girls, please don't worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life.