Persona Growth Quotes

I've learned that in order to effectively and genuinely "Change" for the better.

#1. Must want to change. (Grow)

#2. Know who we are now relative to who we want to be.

#3. Paradoxically we must except who we are in the present moment. (You are worthy right now, you are just searching for a higher a 'self')

#4. Know that "True" change comes from within the mind. To the much deeper 'self' feelings and emotions.

#5. Make no drastic changes, but focus simply on making small ones within the present moment.

Sincerely,

My present self. ~ Matthew Donnelly

Good preachers work hard with the text. They want to make the sermon as accurate as possible. They also want to make it as interesting as possible. They want to persuade, admonish, and exhort, yet nothing happens as a result of their skill. Nothing can happen - at least, nothing good. The Holy Spirit, who attends the preached Word, is the only one who moves people to changed lives and growth. The Word is where the power is. It is not in programs or human skills. We can preach this Word till we are blue in the face, but if the Holy Spirit does not work through the Word preached, noth-ing happens. ~ R.C. Sproul

The Universal Consciousness's feeling is unqualified love for all of its creatures,no matter how foolish and desperate they act. ~ David V. Gaggin

Joblessness gives you time to grow ~ Sunday Adelaja

As a Chinese American legislator, I applaud the RNC's Growth and Opportunity Project. Engaging Asian American and Pacific Islander communities about Republican principles is a worthwhile effort. I thank Chairman Priebus and Co-Chairman Day for making this a priority. We need to ensure our message of growth and opportunity is being heard in all communities throughout this nation, and I am proud to be a part of this effort. ~ Kimberly Yee

We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment ... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning. ~ Francois Hollande

Sometimes it is good to be in uncomfortable situations because it is in finding our way out of such difficulties that we learn valuable lessons. ~ Idowu Koyenikan

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending. ~ Vince Cable

Do not believe that you will get punished for the things you do. Just be honest to yourself and the people you love. ~ Poonam Dhandhania

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth". ~ Peter McWilliams

I didn't give up, I walked away
I had enough of accepting actions that were less than I deserved.
So ...
I made a concious choice
To honour myself,
Before complementing another
&
If that's what; has made you undeniably mad, Than I know, the history of our connection is hidden in the truth of your heart and regardless of your outcome, I have made the right choice for me. ~ Nikki Rowe

Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won't grow beyond your current self. ~ Robert Tew

With the rapid growth of Internet users in China bringing online video into a new paradigm, the market scale we first envisioned as an online video website back in 2006 has grown significantly. ~ Victor Koo

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers. ~ Warren G. Bennis

Beg, borrow, steal, Africa needs to build infrastructure. ~ Sunil Bharti Mittal

For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of others might be deprived of any realistic hope of gaining the opportunities now enjoyed by the more fortunate. ~ Herman Kahn

Human population growth is a problem in that most humans consume more than they need. The Earth's resources are now strained to sustain the needs and wants of the human population, which continues to escalate. ~ Sharon Gannon

Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. ~ Alexander Pope

Probably the most daunting challenge in delivering growth is that if you fail once to deliver it, the odds that you ever will be able to deliver in the future are very low. ~ Clayton M Christensen

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be. ~ David Bowie

A mind, once formed, is never suited after,
One yet in growth will ever grateful be. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The goal of our lives should be nothing less that becoming so familiar with the "mind of Christ" that we could write Jesus' speeches. ~ Clare De Graaf

The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes. ~ Thomas Watson

Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself. ~ Benjamin Graham

But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government. ~ Charles Bass

If you're not aiming at perfection, you're not trying hard enough. ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

I think the conventional wisdom is vastly true. There will be a huge growth in mobile, and this is something we are witnessing every day. ~ Maurice Levy

Wealth gives you options, and your decisions about what to do with your options say much about your character. ~ Beau Sides

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs ... In fact, the Athanasian paradox that one is three, and three but one, is so incomprehensible to the human mind, that no candid man can say he has any idea of it, and how can he believe what presents no idea? He who thinks he does, only deceives himself. He proves, also, that man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.
[Letter to James Smith discussing Jefferson's hate of the doctrine of the Christian trinity, December 8 1822] ~ Thomas Jefferson

Working in Washington, trying to make a difference, that was a very meaningful time for me, a period of personal growth. ~ Tim Finchem

I am now a faded image of my former being,
I let that persona go.
I like myself for who I am and I choose to be, me. ~ Tina J. Richardson

The kid's emotional growth won't suffer if they don't have the most frightening zombie costume in their class? No? Really?
Can I get that in writing? ~ Taya Kyle