Quotes About Growth

Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.

I think anything that affects me in my personal life is going to help me be a better artist on stage.

Children make you want to start life over.

I went from one state of life to another state of life by obeying, understanding, and applying the principles that are laid down in the Bible.

Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

I improvised my life along the way - I just moved step-by-step. And I knew that if I got better, something would happen.

Perfection in any endeavor is an aiming point. Let the desire for it push you, but don't let the absence of it stop you.

We gain internal freedom through external actions.

What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us

You show me someone who's led a perfect life and I'll show you a dullard.

If you have never failed you have never lived.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.

A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

There are so many ways in which we learn about life and the self. Each day opens paths to this exploration. For many of us, books play a major role in that adventure

Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

Knowledge makes people special. Knowledge enriches life itself.

Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

Every single thing you've been through in your life has had a purpose.