Quotes About Growth

To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question."

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

Dare to be imperfect and one day there will tug at your sleeve a soulmate.

The world is as many times new as there are children in our lives.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

The clash between child and adult is never so stubborn as when the child within us confronts the adult in our child.

We all have our limitations, but when we listen to our critics, we also have theirs.

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

I find in old age that it's possible to revisit the past, the one requirement being that you come as you are.

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

Never use the passing years as an excuse for old age.

If you aren't sure who you are, you might as well work on who you want to be.

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.

As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

You live long enough in a world spinning on its axis, you learn to spin in the same direction.

Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit.

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.