"He didn't want the respect of people who weren't worth wiping his nose on-people who weren't worth the spatout gum attached to the bottom of his worn-out shoes. The only respect he wanted was from himself and the people who really mattered in his life. The people who really loved and cared about him."

Growth, Respect, Self, People, Values

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"He didn't want the respect of people who weren't worth wiping his nose on-people who weren't worth the spatout gum attached to the bottom of his worn-out shoes. The only respect he wanted was from himself and the people who really mattered in his life. The people who really loved and cared about him."

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"It's about personal development. It's about creating your own character and pushing it to the limit. It's about pushing yourself so far out of your own and everybody else's idea of who you are and what you're capable of, that you no longer believe in limits. It's about reaching beyond your so-called potential, because your potential is never where you or anyone else expects it to be, not even close. It's about being able to say with the last breath of your life "I used all my potential and all my talents and pushed myself to the limit. I could not have fought any harder."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

Growth, Potential, Discipline, Character

"Win told me that one isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb."

Lisa Kleypas, American Novelist

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"The cost of growth is always a small act of violence."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Growth, Sacrifice, Pain, Change

"What I mean is that those thoughts, they're human. And just because you turn out differently than everyone's imagined you would doesn't mean that you've failed in some way. A kid who gets teased in one school might move to a different one, and be the most popular girl there, just because no one has any other expectations of her. Or a person who goes to med school because his entire family is full of doctors might find out that what he really wants to be is an artist instead."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Growth, Dream, Difference, Expectation, Success

"You can't BREED at a place where you can't BREATHE. Therefore, FIX yourself where you FIT."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Breathing, Fit, Comfort

"You will learn, but you have to act. You will be given, but you have to receive. Stretch your hands and take up your laurels by the power put in you!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Learning, Action, Laurels, Empowerment

"It's important to work on our personal growth, and part of that work is learning, and accepting the fact that we are absolutely enough, as we are. Some of our most profound changes manifest by simply embracing who we've been all along."

Scott Stabile, American Author

Growth, Personal, Learning, Acceptance

"Accept corrections and you'll improve and increase."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Correction, Improvement, Learning

"Once you can write an alphabet, you can write a book of 100 million pages. It's just a matter of believing it as possible, and taking the cross millimetre by millimetre."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Dreams, Belief, Potential, Persistence

"All things are difficult before they are easy."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

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