Personal Growth Quotes

“If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.”

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”

“My chair was nearest to the fireIn every companyThat talked of love or politics,Ere Time transfigured me.”

“The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.”

“Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck”

“I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.”

“For the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.”

“By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.”

“The most important investment you can make is in yourself... nobody can tax it or take it away from you.”

“He who would be a man must therefore be a non-conformist.”

“Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.”

“It's the moments of our life that shape us.”

“If you want to change your life, change the questions you ask yourself each day!”

“We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.”

“The most important investment you can make is in yourself. Very few people get anything like their potential horsepower translated into the actual horsepower of their output in life. Potential exceeds realization for many people...The best asset is your own self. You can become to an enormous degree the person you want to be.”

“The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.”

“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”

“I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.”

“The single most important tool to being in balance is knowing that you and you alone are responsible for the imbalance between what you dream your life is meant to be, and the daily habits that drain life from that dream.”

“Make the decision that you'll no longer use excuses to keep you from what you know is in your best interest. Today, act on something you've always avoided and explained away with a convenient excuse. Make a phone call you've been putting off, write a letter to a friend, put on a pair of walking shoes and go for a stroll, clean out your closet—do something you've been justifying not doing with excuses.”

“Once you see a child's selfimage begin to improve, you will see significant gains in achievement areas, but even more important, you will see a child who is beginning to enjoy life more.”

“All personal breakthroughs begin with a change in beliefs.”

“Always do what you are afraid to do.”

“When I go into the garden with a spade and dig a bed I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.”

“The best investment you can make is in yourself.”