1,725 Quotes About Personal-growth

Nothing great was ever achieved without a personal sacrifice. You have to pay the price to realize your goals.

It is the capacity to feel consuming grief and pain and despair that also allows me to embrace love and joy and beauty with my whole heart. I must let it all in.

Nothing great could ever be achieved, without personal force, determined spirit and self-confidence.

I bet our kiddos are sturdier than we think. Maybe they don't need every gadget and advantage. Maybe kids grow like all humans do: through struggle, failure, and perseverance. They might have a gear we didn't know about and don't need to be coddled like fragile hothouse plants that can't adapt to new environments. I bet the kids will surprise us.

It doesn't matter whether our certain thought or feeling or behavior is reasonable or not, what we must be aware of is, whether it impedes in our development, our internal growth - and whether it makes us a bigot.

People always point to an idyllic view of the healers of old, who didn’t seem to need money—at least in our present-day imaginations. The equivalent of a “thank you goat” for a healer living in Chicago is someone swiping their bank card for her services.

It is in the act of admitting our weaknesses that we are showing our strength.

A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

The work that I do on myself may not be evident in my daily exchanges, but little by little, if I continue, I hope that my actions will reflect my changing mindset, and next time, I promise myself, I'll do things differently. Getting on top of my shortcomings is not immediate; it's endless.