Paul Dano 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 don't want to be overly philosophical, but I think there are things you earn for yourself as you go.

You are the best lessons you learn from life. I have grown up learning from my life.

My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

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.

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

I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.

I think almost everything in life is life-experience, personality-driven.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

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

I try to get people thinking, to consider their pasts and presents, ultimately encouraging them and giving them the tools to embrace the work of reshaping their lives.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

For me, I try to see difficulties as a way of expanding and growing as a person inhabiting this planet.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

I used to think that divorce meant failure, but now I see it more as a step along the path of self-realization and growth.

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.

Everyone needs to carry out his own personal revolution.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I'm a different athlete, I'm a different person.

I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.

We can change who we are. We can improve ourselves in various ways, and we can give ourselves possibilities.