Personal Growth Quotes

"The leader who intends to grow spiritually and intellectually must be reading constantly."

- J. Oswald Sanders

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one."

- George R.R. Martin

"The purpose of reading is not just raw knowledge. It’s that it is part of the human experience. It helps you find meaning, understand yourself, and make your life better."

- Ryan Holiday

"The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again."

- Steve Jobs

"I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long."

- Steve Jobs

""Every flower blooms in its own time.""

- Ken Petti

"Camping has become one of my most beloved pastimes. I take a fierce delight in swinging a pak o my back or into a canoe and heading for the hills or lakes. In my opinion, camping can be the greatest expression of free will, personal independence, innate ability, and resourcefulness possible today in our industrialized, urbanized existence. Regardless of how miserable or how splendid the circumstances, the sheer experience of camping seems a total justification for doing it."

- Anne LaBastille

"Now I see the secret of making the best person, it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking. You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits."

- Cindy Ross

"As we go through the journey of life, we must remember that the impressions we leave behind will define who and what we are. They are just as individual as the paths we have chosen to walk. So leave good impressions wherever you go."

- Dave Hedges

"Indeed, Allah will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves. And when Allah intends for a people ill, there is no repelling it. And there is not for them besides Him any patron."

- Quran

"I come from the slums; I come from a hard background; I come from a poor family; and I was a soldier."

- Michael Caine

"Once your mind stretches to a new level it never goes back to its original dimension"

- A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

"I’ve lost my wild heart once. Twice. Too many times to count. I’ve lost her most often when I’ve forgotten myself, when I’ve denied my own truths, when I’ve pushed down the need to create for so long that my heart…she finds better things to do. The funny thing is, that the losing and the finding are interwoven. We must lose our wild hearts from time to time, I believe. We must so that we know why we need them. We must, so that we remember that in order to be found we must go into the wilderness. Sometimes, it is only in the getting lost that we can find our way back home."

- Jeanette LeBlanc

""Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.""

- Andy Rooney

""Everybody wants to reach the peak, but there is no growth on the top of a mountain. It is in the valley that we slog through, the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.""

- Andy Andrews

"My experience with Rocky Mountain Youth Corps and my crew taught me to be patient, to laugh at things, especially when things go completely opposite of how I thought they would go, to work hard and to treat the environment and myself in the best way. I learned about the amazing beauty and stillness of nature, and the physical work it takes to preserve such wonder. I learned the value of preservation and trail work needed to protect the environment that offers us so much. I pushed myself farther than I thought I could ever go. Through this environmental and team service work, I, like many in my crew, found myself."

- Gracie Billingsley, a Corps Network 2015 Corpsmember of the Year

"The streets raised me, the struggle made me. The hood is my past, not my destiny."

- 50 Cent

"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."

- Albus Dumbledore

"Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves."

- Garth Stein

"Intentional days create a life of purpose."

- Adrienne Enns

"Every journey begins with the first step of articulating the intention, and then becoming the intention."

- Bryant McGill

"You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self."

- Richie Norton

"Learning something new is a fabulous way to be refreshed. When work can grind you down, something about learning a new activity thrills the soul. It reminds you that the world is bigger than your desk and your to-do list."

- John Ortberg

"Something will grow from all you are going through. And it will be you…."

"Grow through whatever you go through."

- Unknown

"I can easily forget that I’m in control of my life and return to feeling like a victim of my chronic pain. I may start asking myself again why this has happened to me, what I did to deserve this, etc. However, one of the gifts of pain recovery has been freedom from victim-thinking. This comes about overtime, but it does come."

"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."

"Everyday you can take a tiny step in the right direction."

"Once a beginner, forever a learner. Embrace the journey, for greatness awaits those who persist."