Personal Growth Quotes

Healing occurs in the present, not the past.  We're not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we'e not giving in the present.  There's a lot of talk today about people growing up in dysfunctional homes, but who didn't grow up in a dysfunctional home?  This world is a dysfunction.  However, there's nothing we've been through or seen or done that cannot be used to make our lives more valuable now.  We can grow from any experience, and we can transcend any experience.

~ Marianne Williamson

Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation.

~ John Stahl-Wert

A successful person is just a novice who started and kept on going.

~ Maddy Malhotra

The world isn’t waiting for you. It doesn’t even know that you're alive. But it needs you, and it won’t know about you until and unless you get yourself out there.

~ Steven Washer

Mindfulness is essential in our path toward personal growth. We cannot cannot change what we are not aware of.

~ Jose Incer

One must avoid getting stuck in the negative memories because these can block personal growth.

~ Hina Hashmi

The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value.

~ John Stahl-Wert

Philosophy's greatest task is to enlarge our sense of possibility.

~ Susan Neiman

Luckily i went out and just did it, successfully, before i was told that it can't be done!Den-J

~ Denis John George

It takes a rare person to care the same or more about you than themselves. So, until you find that person, please look after yourself.

~ Charles F. Glassman

We hurt ourselves much more than anyone can hurt us just by believing the stupid thoughts we get sometimes.

~ Charles F. Glassman

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

~ Bo Bennett

Working consciously with the Divine Map of Transformation aligns you to the Earth and the Heavens, to your soul purpose and your personal individuation, to your inner growth and external manifestation.

~ Gia Combs-Ramirez

Everybody is fighting a hard battle that you know nothing about, never give up with yours.

~ Auliq Ice

Personal growth centers on two types of people, the ones we like and the ones that drive us crazy.

~ Auliq Ice

The Function of Leadership is to produce more Leaders, Not more Followers.

~ Ralph Nader

I strongly believe that you have to get lost to find yourself.

~ Kaiylah Muhammad

A butterfly has to be a caterpillar first, allow yourself time to grow.

~ Kaiylah Muhammad

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

~ Erri De Luca

Is there an end to learning?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Self enlightenment is the greatest endowment.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

True change doesn't happen overnight; it has to happen gradually. You first have to have a change of heart, then a change of mind, and then your actions will follow.

~ Kaiylah Muhammad

True self-confidence never needs to degrade the confidence of others in order to grow and survive. If it does, it’s not confidence at all…it’s ego.

~ Charles F. Glassman

True self-confidence never needs to degrade the confidence of others in order to grow. If it does, it’s not confidence at all…it’s ego.

~ Charles F. Glassman

Keep reading, Keep learning.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The more we are able to engage in enthusiastic disagreement with each other, the more we will be able to uncover the best in ourselves and each other.

~ Karen Kimsey-House

When you disrupt yourself, you are looking for growth, so if you want to muscle up a curve, you have to push and pull against objects and barriers that would constrain and constrict you. That is how you get stronger.

~ Whitney Johnson

We live and learn, change and grow. Older, but not always wiser. Stronger but not necessarily smarter. Life is a dance of steps taken forward and backwards, time spent standing still, and twirling in circles as we follow our own shadows.

~ A.j. Compton

The more closed your network, the more you hear the same ideas over and again, reaffirming what you already believe, while the more open your network, the more exposed you are to new ideas.

~ Whitney Johnson

I can Be what I WILL to Be. Find A Way~ Make it Happen!

~ Darwun St. James

Unforgiveness is a shadow of the past; it is behind you, but you always know it is there. Sorrow and bitterness covers your heart like the darkness covers the night.

~ Deborah Brodie

You must seek to know thyself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When we encounter a friend who's depressed or afraid, we automatically try to take that distress away and to cheer the person up. While we may be operating with the best of intentions, this Band-Aid approach only reinforces the condition. Unless people experience their pain completely and begin to undrstand it, they will not only fail to overcome it, they'll also lose the opportunity of using it to advance their own growth. Pain can get you somewhere, and that somewhere can be a life-enhancing experience. We all tend to forget that pain can signal change. Alleviating the symptoms of pain in someone, without helping them to get at its underlying source, robs them of an important to for self-exploration. It's also a way of placating that reinforces the person'S need to cave in and succumb to another. This attitude undermines healthy character development and contributes to psychospiritual, moral, and ultimately social decay.

~ Adele Von Rust Mccormick

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

~ Holly Goldberg Sloan

I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one's own limitations.

~ Chris Matakas

We want to change our surroundings, but we don't want to change ourselves. We are so quick to point out others' flaws, but can't admit our own. We complain about the problems with society, but don't offer a solution or acknowledge that we could be a part of the problem. And once we feel like we've outgrown a problem, instead of sharing what we've learned from our experience, we act so enlightened and better than the next man.

~ Kaiylah Muhammad

I think the times that we're fucked up and lost in the world bring us closer to figuring out who we are.

~ Kaiylah Muhammad

By becoming a black belt, you will become whatever it is you wanted to be in the first place, and Jiu Jitsu will have served its aim.

~ Chris Matakas

we must remember that the end of personal mastery is service to others.

~ Chris Matakas

In my own life, I have always viewed personal mastery as simply a medium through which I become capable of providing more service toward my fellow man.

~ Chris Matakas