personal growth quotes

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I’ve always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin‘ my thing, my own way. And it’s been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

I love being busy.

I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that’s left for you or to make one of your own.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

Humble people ask for help.

We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.

Real life is the life that’s in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you’re in relationship with.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

I don’t have all the answers.

When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

Things do not change; we change.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

We are wiser than we know.