Quotes on Self Growth

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

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.

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

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?

God ever works with those who work with will.