Quotes About Growth

Woman is learning for herself that not self-sacrifice, but self development, is her first duty in life; and this, not primarily for the sake of others but that she may become fully herself.

Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

And Life continues to be fascinating...

No pressure, no diamonds.

Battles are won in the trenches, in the grit and grime of courageous determination; they are won day by day in the arena of life.

Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.

A big secret to life is when you learn that learning is just as entertaining as entertainment, but with long term benefits.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Every one of us comes into this life with lessons to learn and gifts to give.

I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

Life isn't a race to win, it's a school for our higher education.

You can become a big master in chess only if you see your mistakes and short-comings. Exactly the same as in life itself.

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

I am rooted, but I flow.

I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.