Personal Growth Quotes

"He who is content to not-catch fish in a skillful and refined manner, using the best tackle and technique, will find his time and attention free for the accumulation of a thousand experiences, the memory of which will remain for his enjoyment long after any recollection of fish would have faded."

- Sparse Grey Hackle

"I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"Losing my mother at such an early age is the scar of my soul. But I feel like it ultimately made me into the person I am today. I understand the journey of life. I had to go through what I did to be here."

- Mariska Hargitay

""Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.""

- Pat Riley

"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"If you do not enter the New Year more mature, more planned, more careful, more logical, more intelligent, in short, more developed, the New Year will be a repeat of the past years!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."

- Irish proverb

"Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Man reist nicht, um anzukommen, sondern um zu reisen."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Man reist nicht, um anzukommen, sondern um zu reisen"

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress."

- Bryant McGill

"Your talents and abilities will improve over time, but for that, you have to start."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would"

- E.V

"Winning is not always the barometer of getting better."

- Tiger Woods

"Golf has made me and shaped me into the person I am here today."

- Tiger Woods

"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you; they're supposed to help you discover who you are."

- Bernice Johnson Reagon

"Mental health is not a destination but a process. It's about how you drive, not where you're going."

- Noam Spencer

"Medicine really matured me as a person because, as a physician, you're obviously dealing with life and death issues… if you can handle that, you can handle anything."

- Ken Jeong, MD

"Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey."

- Thalia

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom."

- Earl Shoaf

"Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are."

- Kelly McGillis

"Character is a journey, not a destination."

- William J. Clinton

"Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved."

- Satya Nadella

"Your journey has molded you for your greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be."

- Asha Tyson

"Through it all, I have learned to laugh and cry and grow. I look at the woman I was in my 20s and I see a young lady growing into confidence but intent on pleasing everyone around her. I now feel so much more beautiful, so much sexier, so much more interesting. And so much more powerful."

- Beyonce

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too."

- Paulo Coelho

"I can't change the world but I can change the world in me."

- Bono

"To be successful, you have to learn to do things you dont like. You find ways to like the process and make the most of that time."

- Coach K

"A great difference between 'May' and 'Day' is the 'M' and 'D!' Be a good managing director of your life each day in May."

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

"One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle."

- Michael Palin