Quotes on Personal Growth

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

Procrastinatio n will delay your change!!! Today is a very good day to change; don't let YOU stop yourself from growing!

A good idea for a new business tends not to occur in isolation, and often the window of opportunity is very small. So speed is of the essence.

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.

People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.

School typically doesn't prepare young people for real life - unless their lives are spent following instructions and pleasing others. In my opinion, that's why so many students who succeed in school fail in life.

We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Of all the things that can have an effect on your future, I believe personal growth is the greatest. We can talk about sales growth, profit growth, asset growth, but all of this probably will not happen without personal growth.

I am convinced that there is no simple formula or technique that would immediately allow you to master the ability to be guided by the voice of the Spirit. Our Father expects you to learn how to obtain that divine help by exercising faith in Him and His Holy Son, Jesus Christ. Were you to receive inspired guidance just for the asking, you would become weak and ever more dependent on them. They know that essential personal growth will come as you struggle to learn how to be led by the Spirit.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don't settle for them.

Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.

Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'