Quotes about Personal Growth

I may have done some other things as good but I am sure none better. I haven't matured, progressed, grown, become deeper, wiser, or funnier. But then, I never thought I would. (Peter Cook about Beyond the Fringe)

In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

understanding of the self as a mental agent grows out of interpersonal experience, particularly primary-object relationships

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

Watch anyone enter their arena of real mastery and you see it, the growing bigger than themselves. Love that.

Magical. I mean to watch a person let go of something and flower.

I'm sure that's when you really know you are happy - when you wake up wanting to embrace your future, rather than trying to squirm away from your past.

Unless the distant goals of meaning, greatness, and destiny are addressed, we can't make an intelligent decision about what to do tomorrow morning—much less set strategy for a company or for a human life. Nothing is more practical than for people to deepen themselves. The more you understand the human condition, the more effective you are as a businessperson. Human depth makes (even) business sense.

When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,

for it is better that he says to you, “Come up here!” than that you should be demoted in the presence of the prince. Even what you have seen with your own eyes,

I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Now to the unmarried and widows I say this: It is good for them to remain unmarried, as I am.

Because of the present crisis, I think it is good for a man to remain as he is.

I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but in order to promote proper decorum and undivided devotion to the Lord.

We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us—a field that reaches even to you.