Quotes About Growth

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

To learn a thing in life and through doing is much more developing, cultivating, and strengthening than to learn it merely through the verbal communication of ideas.

When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.

They say people in your life are seasons and anything that happens is for a reason.

Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.

Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.

Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow.

There are lessons in everything. The bad, the good. Our job is to listen, and to continue to learn, so that maybe we get better at this. Maybe get better at life.

This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.

The main thing God gets out of your life is not the achievements you accomplish. It's the person you become.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

Education is an atmosphere, a discipline, a life

The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.

We cannot protect our children from life. Therefore, it is essential that we prepare them for it.

Intolerance of your present creates your future.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

There will always be people in your life who treat you wrong. Be sure to thank them for making you strong.

If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

Don't try to force anything. Let life be a deep let-go. God opens millions of flowers everyday without forcing their buds