Quotes About Growth

The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

You were born with two things: existence and opportunity, and these are the raw materials out of which you can make a successful life.

Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.

You think you know your possibilities. Then other people come into your life and suddenly there are so many more.

Your life will be transformed when you make peace with your shadow.

I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts. But for me, conflict was not the main principle.

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.

Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do.

I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience

I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.

I'd like to thank everybody who ever punched or kissed me in my life and everybody who I ever punched or kissed.

Your life starts to take shape at 30. You don't have to make excuses for who you are anymore.

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

My life is an unfinished product, but instead of just saying, 'How do I top what I've accomplished,' I decided I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step into the next chapter.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.