1,725 Quotes About Personal-growth

Who I am' is the phenomenal platform from which 'who I will become' will emerge. Therefore, I should hold the former in the highest regard in order that I might grow the latter to the greatest degree.

Ego, craving distinction, belongs to the narrowness of now; but self, looking for union, belongs to the past and future, to the continuum, to the outside. Of all the visions of the Grandfathers, the greatest is this: To seek the high concord, a man looks not deeper within - he reaches farther out.

That voice you listen to is no friend. It promises so much but when has it ever given you what it promised? When has it ever given you any happiness longer than a fleeting moment? It has your destruction as its goal, not your happiness.

Don't argue with a smart person. He won't drag you up to his level.

The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity. Usually, growth comes at the expense of previous comfort or safety.

Possibly, he was in a state of second growth and recovery, and was constantly assimilating nutriment for his spirit and intellect from sights, sounds, and events which passed as a perfect void to persons more practised with the world. As all is activity and vicissitude to the new mind of a child, so might it be, likewise, to a mind that had undergone a kind of new creation, after its longsuspended life.

If you're the only one that can see the genius in you, It's best you revisit the drawing board.

Until a man begins to read, then He will discover himself.

She said they needed to put down a real root system to achieve their potential