Quotes on Personal Growth

You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you: You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth are the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

The problem is that most people focus on their failures rather than their successes. But the truth is that most people have many more successes than failures.

It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.

I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction.

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinary well.

I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

Enthusiasm is the steam that drives the engine.

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

The best prescription is knowledge.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?