Personal Growth Quotes

"To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's." "If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you." "Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others." "Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality" "Believe in yourself and you can achieve greatness" "You never know what the future holds, but I hope we’re all doing more" "I learn from everything I do" "To each, there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour." "Life begins on the other side of despair" "Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have" "The only source of knowledge is experience" "Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school" "Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you" "If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company" "If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company" "When I am cast in a good part, it is like a vacation. Nothing can take the place of work." "To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments" "The task of adulthood is to continue the work of creating order in consciousness" "I think school is so much harder than real life. People are so much more accepting when they are adults" "Acting allows me to explore emotions and experiences I’d never face in real life; it’s both terrifying and exhilarating."