Quotes on Personal Growth

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

If you pursue enrichment and growth, you must increase your references by pursuing ideas and experiences that wouldn't be a part of your life if you didn't consciously seek them out.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

There are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

The true self, once discovered, is the source of creativity, intelligence and personal growth. No external solution has such power.

Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth

Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals.

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.