Quotes about Personal Growth
Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.
— John Updike
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
— John Wooden
A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.
— John Wooden
If I am through learning, I am through.
— John Wooden
I am not what I ought to be, Not what I want to be, Not what I am going to be, But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be. It
— John Wooden
don't worry about whether you're better than somebody else, but never cease trying to be the best you can become. You have control over that; the other you don't.
— John Wooden
Never try to be better than anyone else, but never cease to be the best you can be. That's achievement.
— John Wooden
When you blame others you are trying to excuse yourself. When you make excuses you can't properly evaluate yourself. Without proper self-evaluation, failure is inevitable.
— John Wooden
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday
— John Wooden
Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
— Stephen Covey
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
— Oprah Winfrey