Quotes about personal growth

Much that is great starts small, ignorant, and useless. […] But today’s beginner is tomorrow’s master.

It is far better to become something than to remain anything but become nothing.

We don't have the right to demand perfection from each other. But we do have the right to expect progress. To demand evolution. So, let's make some new mistakes.

You must purge yourself before finding faults in others.

When you see a mistake in somebody else, try to find if you are making the same mistake.

This is the way to take judgment and to turn it into improvement.

Do not look at others' bodies with envy or with superiority.

All people are born with different constitutions.Never compare with others.

Each one's capacities are a function of his or her internal strength.Know your capacities and continually improve upon them.

Our flawed mechanisms of perception and thought are not a cause for grief, but an opportunity to evolve, for an internal evolution of consciousness that will also make possible, in a sustainable form, our aspirations toward what we call individual success and global progress.

"She taught me this above all else: things which don't shift and grow are dead things. They are things the witchery people want. Witchery works to scare people, to make them fear growth. But it has always been necessary, and more than ever now, it is. Otherwise we won't make it. We won't survive..." (p116)

"Expressive writing" encourages us to see our misfortunes not as flaws that make us unfit for worldly success (or otherworldly heaven), but as the seeds of our growth.

To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant.

We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.

The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.

“No one ever accomplished anything by being content with who they were, Shallan,” Adolin said. “We accomplish great things by reaching toward who we could become.”

“As long as it’s what you want to become. Not what someone else thinks you should become.”

If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.