Personal Growth Quotes

Be the great person you were always meant to be.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Abstaining from sex is a small fraction of the chastity process. Your intentions are just as important as the act of sex itselfThe Ultimate Guide to Chastity

~ Sandra B. James

We must discover our own path to joy and a sense of leading a purposeful existence. I spent the first part of life attempting to discern what a man ought to be, and spent the latter years attempting to reconcile why I was not the man whom I always aspired to be. A person endures a tragic consumption of the spirit when they discover that they are not what they desired to become.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

They said that you would never make it, but you did. They said that you would quit, but you persevered and fought through every obstacle that came your way. They said that you didn’t have what it takes, but you proved them ALL wrong. Not only do you have success, but you have peace and joy within. You never compromised your character and you tackled everything with dignity. You didn’t allow any challenges to discourage you, because you knew all along that there was a winner in you. You doubted yourself at times, but you didn’t allow anything or anybody to keep you down. You made it! Be proud of your accomplishments! Enjoy all of the benefits from your hard work and dedication!

~ Stephanie Lahart

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.

~ Anna White

May you find grace to survive life difficulties.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You have to choose your path.You have to decide what you wish to do.You are the only person that can determine your destiny.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The gift of the moments and its lessons prepares us for a better tomorrow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The process of enlightenment and evolution can never happen without the realisation of shortcomings. People, when they think they are the best and can’t get any better, are easily offended when others see room for improvement. But it is when you think you are already the best that you have put a ceiling right on top of your head, a ceiling made of concrete, that stops you from becoming any better! Be happy when you see an area for improvement! Be happy that someone pointed it out to you, be happy that there is still space above you for you to reach towards; and not just an impenetrable ceiling of satisfaction and ideology.

~ C. Joybell C.

Give your mind permission to travel where the body cannot go and be open to all the wisdom that the universe has to offer.

~ Janet Autherine

An educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents’ and his grandparents’ generation have got through molding it. We can’t help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you:Remember we really don’t know anything. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don’t know. That is your playground, bare and graveled, safe and unbreakable.

~ Lincoln Steffens

I am a strong and powerful woman.I am proud to be a woman and I celebrate the qualities that I have as a woman.I am not defined by other people’s opinion of who I should be or what I should do as a woman. I determine that, not anyone else.I am not passed up for a position, title, or promotion because I am a woman.I fully deserve all the good things that comes my way.Irrespective of what anyone might think, being a woman places no boundaries or limits on my abilities.I can do anything I set my mind to.I celebrate my womanhood and I am beautiful both inside and out.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

Human history is the ancient story of the umbilical conflict between a lone individual versus a cabalistic society. A love-hate relationship defines our personal history with society, where the suppression of individuality for the sake of the collective good battles the notion that the purpose of society is to enable each person to flourish. A conspicuous feature of cultural development involves societies teaching children the sublimation of unacceptable impulses or idealizations, consciously to transform their inappropriate instinctual impulses into socially acceptable actions or behavior. The paradox rest in the concept that in order for any person to flourish they must preserve the spiritual texture of themselves, a process that requires the individual to resist societal restraint, push off against the community, and reject the walls of traditionalism that seek to pen us in. The climatic defining event in a person’s life represents the liberation of the self from crippling conformism, staunchly rebuffing capitulating to the whimsy of the super ego of society.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Education is the key to self-development and empowerment

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The easiest thing for a person is to accept everything as it is and adjust with everyone in the surroundings by sacrificing or compromising originality, but it's also the worst thing if he proclaims that he has changed himself.

~ Testy Mctesterson

Authenticity inspires. Just be real.

~ Renae A. Sauter

We all struggle. It's just that some of us struggle out loud and some of us don't.

~ Renae A. Sauter

Follow the truth and you will never get lost.

~ Renae A. Sauter

Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.

~ Richard Carlson

It is our ability to forget our problems, through the process of thought, rather than the passage of time, that frees us from the circumstances of our past.

~ Richard Carlson

Kindness is not a fixed trait that we either have or lack, but more like a muscle that can be developed and strengthened.

~ Sharon Salzberg

If you read great literature every day, you will uplift your spirit, soul and self.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Running away, avoiding life's battles or giving up robs you of the opportunity to grow and be stronger.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

When you overcome the difficulties of life, you develop an inner strength

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It's easy to point out other people flaws, but it takes TRUE courage and strength take a look in the mirror, admit personal flaws AND strive to do and be better. That's growth!

~ Yvonne Pierre

You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.

~ Bob Proctor

You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone.

~ Bob Proctor

I want to do a good job living today.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.

~ Deborah Day

An authentic and genuine life grows like a sturdy tree. And like a tree, it grows slowly. Every time you make a different and better decision, it grows a little. Every time you choose to do the right thing, even when nobody would find out otherwise, it grows a little. Every time you act with compassion, relinquish your right to strike back, take a courageous stand, admit fault or accept responsibility, it grows a little.

~ Steve Goodier

The type of person you are is usually reflected in your business. To improve your business, first improve yourself.

~ Idowu Koyenikan

BE OPEN TO new thoughts, to new people, to new principles, to new ideas, to new experiences. NEW MAKES US GROW

~ Rossana Condoleo

Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Staying in a relationship with someone who doesn't love him/herself, is a direct reflection of how much you love and value yourself.

~ Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana

The most important thing in life it to be true to ourselves, to never give up attempting to become the very finest version of what we wish to be, no matter how arduous that proves to be.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A person begins to live a moral life when they cease asking what life will provide them and begins to determine what he or she expects from oneself.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

We all must determine what types of anatomical castanets vest in our central core. For aught we know, we still tend to think of ourselves as a complete and fixed product. In reality, analogous to an unfinished paper, working from the inside out, we are retooling ourselves every day whether we recognize the minor or major tinkering taking place or not. In a neurological sense, the brain is constantly working to build and rebuild itself. In a psychological sense, every day the human mind is altering who we are. We constantly take in new information that modifies and enhances our understanding of the world and our place in the environment. Every day we are using the sense of self and our accumulated knowledge to adapt to our world and modify our thinking and behavior.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Your personal growth is the only thing that matters. You own and write your story, no one else does. Believe in the unique step up the mountain.

~ Brittany Burgunder

Undergoing personal change is a difficult but necessary process of maturing into the ultimate manifestation of a desirable self. True personal transformation requires a person honestly to assess their inner spirituality and adopt a clear vision of who they want to be. An earnest person experiencing inner transformation of their values and belief system is apt to feel conflicted, confused, and disorientated. Change of self is displacement, disarticulation, and loss of self. Alteration of our self-image results in disrupting, dislocating, and modifying a person’s perspective of what is significant.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster