Quotes About Growth

While I was trying to write, I was trying to grow.

Learning to love yourself, is the greatest love all

Don't panic. If you write, you'll be a writer.

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.

I think the idea that you know who your inner self is on a daily basis, because... you know. What's good for you 25 years ago may not be good for you now. So, to keep in touch with that, I think that's the first ingredient for success. Because if you're a successful human being, everything else is gravy, I think.

You've got to stop worrying about a choice you made fifteen years ago, because you can't change it.

don't be the smartest person in the room, its corollary is: if you look around and see that you are the smartest person in the room, find a new room.* This is the only way you keep growing and challenging yourself to be the most interesting human you can be.

Still, I accepted this invitation to speak tonight because if one of my fundamental rules for living a successful and happy life is: don't be the smartest person in the room, it's corollary is: if you look around and see that you are the smartest person in the room, find a new room. This is the only way you keep growing and challenging yourself to be the most interesting human you can be.

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be as good an actor as Patrick, as cool as Frakes, and as funny as Brent. From time to time, one of them would say something to me that made me feel like I'd taken a step in that direction, and it always meant the world to me. I loved it when Brent would joke around with me, because it made me feel like I was the peer I so desperately wanted to be, instead of the clueless teenager I knew I was.

The difference is a matter of shifts in society . . . and in me. These shifts aren't meant to be an excuse of any kind. I'm happy for the shifts, as it has brought (at least some of) the world to a more enlightened place. A place just a touch freer of bigotry and hatred, including within myself.

So as you get older, and as your knowledge grows, don't ever stop learning. Stay curious.

That includes the gross parts, which I am learning to accept (without condoning) through the words of the great Bob Ross: "You can't have light without a little darkness.

Little Engines Can Do BIG Things

In marriage, being the right person is as important as finding the right person.

When a traveller gets a thorn in his foot,' Mbejane went on softly, 'and he is wise he plucks it out – and he is a fool who leaves it and says "I will keep this thorn to prick me so that I will always remember the road upon which I have travelled." Nkosi, it is better to remember with pleasure than with pain.

The branch breaks that will not bend with the wind. You must learn to bend".

The best dividends on labor invested have invariably come from seeking more knowledge rather than more power.

What I know about poker, you can fit into a thimble with room left over, but I'm learning.

The art of being yourself at your best is the art of unfolding your personality into the person you want to be. . . . Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.

No, it is not the goal but the way there that matters, and the harder the way the more worth while the journey.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.

Gençler her zaman hakl?d?r, ben eminim bundan, hakl? de?ilseler de haklar? vard?r. ?unu demek istiyorum: Kendi tecrübelerini edinmeye sonuna kadar haklar? vard?r. Kötü tecrübeler olsa bile bunlar, ders ç?kar?rlar.