Individual Growth Quotes

If you see your path laid out in front of you - Step one, Step two, Step three - you only know one thing . . . it is not your path. Your path is created in the moment of action. If you can see it laid out in front of you, you can be sure it is someone else's path. That is why you see it so clearly.

Generally speaking, investing in yourself is the best thing you can do. Anything that improves your own talents; nobody can tax it or take it away from you. They can run up huge deficits and the dollar can become worth far less. You can have all kinds of things happen. But if you’ve got talent yourself, and you’ve maximized your talent, you’ve got a tremendous asset that can return ten-fold.

If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it's not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

I've learned that asking ourselves not just what we want to be, but who we want to be is important at every stage of our lives, not just when we're starting out in the world. That's because in a way, we're starting out fresh in the world every single day.

It's hard enough to change ourselves. We can't expect other people to change so that we feel better. We have to take the journey ourselves.

There is another very specific quality which distinguishes them [man from animals], and which will admit of no dispute. This is the faculty of self-improvement, which, by the help of circumstances, gradually develops all the rest of our faculties, and is inherent in the species as in the individual: whereas a brute is, at the end of a few months, all he will ever be during his whole life, and his species, at the end of a thousand years, exactly what it was the first year of that thousand.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No, they are ones that leave you free to stand alone on your own solid ground, leave him to do the same, a tender space between you.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

The higher education so much needed today is not given in the school, is not to be bought in the market place, but it has to be wrought out in each one of us for himself; it is the silent influence of character on character.

Independent development can be a virus that can infect others.

It's so hard for every young person, trying to figure out the adult you want to be.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.

When I came to Mumbai, I realised an individual should be versatile, and in playback singing you have different genres where you can explore yourself.

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.

You just have to always go out and continue to work hard, watch the film, see what you did wrong from an offensive unit and individually. Then, you just have to go out and do better the next time out. That is what sports is all about.

Encourage independence in your children by regularly losing them in the supermarket.

The craving to change the world is perhaps a reflection of the craving to change ourselves.

If you know what changes a heart, you know what changes the world.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

The best way of leading people is to let them find their own way.