Personal Growth Quotes - Page 15

• People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Yoga, Heart

  "SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Love does not judge. Love promotes personal growth.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Judging, Growth, Doe

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Men, Reality

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• I have found that by looking at what is rewarded and punished, and why, universally - i.e., in nature as well as in humanity - I have been able to learn more about what is "good" and "bad" than by listening to most people's views about good and bad.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Views, People

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• I believe that understanding what is good is obtained by looking at the way the world works and figuring out how to operate in harmony with it to help it evolve.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Believe, Understanding

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• When you think that it's too hard, remember that in the long run, doing the things that will make you successful is a lot easier than being unsuccessful

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Running, Successful

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• Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

  Darren Hardy

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Giving

  "The Pursuit of Happiness". Interview with Darren Hardy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2014.

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• You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Moving, Growth

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• Once you accept that playing the game will be uncomfortable, and you do it for a while, it will become much easier (like it does when getting fit). When you excel at it, you will find your ability to get what you want thrilling.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Games, Growth

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• I could see that making judgments about people so that they are tried and sentenced in your head, without asking them for their perspective, is both unethical and unproductive. So I learned to love real integrity and to despise the lack of it.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Integrity, Real

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• Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Opposites, People, Decision

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You can't control the perception of others no matter how hard you try. Do things that promote personal growth and health.

  Melanie Iglesias

  Perception, Growth, Trying

  "Melanie Iglesias: The Practice of Happiness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• People say, "John, what's your personal growth?" And ask "How do you grow?" And I tell them. I thought, "Why do I keep telling them, why don't I just write a book on what I call personal growth?" And that's what this [Today Matters] book is.

  John C. Maxwell

  Book, Writing, People

  Christian Book Previews Interview, www.christianbookpreviews.com.

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• Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged to progress toward complexity- or at the very least a place that does not make it more difficult to achieve personal growth.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Growth, Progress, Doe

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• we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The key word is education - education with maximum effort. Without it, we cannot be in charge of ourselves or anyone else.

  Bill Cosby

  Education, Teaching, Keys

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• Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it's almost always due to personal growth.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Growth, Succeed

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• I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Holiday, Journey

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• We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.

  Harriet Lerner

  Believe, True Joy, Peak Experiences

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• Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up.

  Billy Joel

  Doors, Opening Up, People

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• I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Motivational, Ambition, Long

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2064, e-artnow

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• Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth.

  Judith Wright

  Marriage, Growth, Path

  Judith Wright (2003). “There Must Be More Than This: Finding More Life, Love and Meaning by Overcoming Your Soft Addictions”, Broadway

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• Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

  Pat Summitt

  Basketball, Mistake, Team

  Pat Summitt (1999). “Reach for the Summit”, p.39, Crown Business

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• You've got to continue to grow, or you're just like last night's cornbread - stale and dry.

  Loretta Lynn

  Life, Night, Dry

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.117, Vintage

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• The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?

  Paul Wellstone

  Children, Thinking, People

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• For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

  Jim Rohn

  Change, Growth, Different

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