Phil Jones Quotes

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

I always wanna be in the process of evolving and growing.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.

To me, you can always get better.

I think I'm always learning, I'm always trying to be at my best.

The feeling of self-discovery, for me, is perennial.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

I believe that self-discovery is an ongoing thing.

I constantly want to be learning, growing and better understanding things. And see where that takes us.

I've tested life and I've learned what works for me.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

I think every individual has his or her own power, and it's a matter of working, taking time and defining what that power is.

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

We must make the choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real selves.

I believe that I have such a vanilla life. But maybe I come with a different perspective. I'm always trying to improve myself.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

I'm always looking for a way to give myself something new as a person.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.