Personal Growth Quotes

"Coaching is not just about how to do something; it's about how to be someone."

- Esther Derby

"A person doesn't have to change who he is to become better."

- Sidney Poitier

"Stop wanting things and put all your energy into becoming the kind of person that would already have them."

- Jesh De Rox

"It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself."

- Joyce Maynard

"It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique."

- Ellen DeGeneres

"In almost every garden, the land is made better and so is the gardener."

- Robert Rodale

"The guys who fear becoming fathers don't understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child-raising is not the child but the parent."

- Frank Pittman

"We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it."

- Pittacus Lore

"God loves us as we are, but He also loves us too much to leave us this way."

- Bradley R. Wilcox

"To ask that God's love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God."

- C.S. Lewis