Quotes About Growth

We made too many wrong mistakes.—Yogi Berra

Everyday is a second chance to redeem yourself.

Life is a quest to find out how much better you can be and higher you can go.

We are what we are because of what we've been

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

I didn't miss training because it had become so painful for me. I filled the void pretty quickly as I went straight into coaching and it was great I had to start learning all over again, and then when I went into TV I knew nothing about it so I had to start from the very beginning.

all I could think was how strange it was that it was a messed-up child who barely knew herself who actually had so much to teach me about the business of living. I was suddenly glad of his solidity in a world where it was so easy to fall. It is important not to turn the dead into saints. Nobody can walk in the shadow of a saint. You live. And you throw yourself into everything and try not to think about the bruises.

Maybe that's what being real friends are all about - putting up with the hard lessons - both taught and learned together.

Let's pursue excellence together. Let's make art. Let's build the future. Let's be our best selves.

the knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.

I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now.

would savor this mortal life while I had it, learn and experience all I could. And when it ended, I would take what I had learned and be a more excellent god and make the world better.

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying.

Certainty closes many doors," he replied. "It leads to dogmatism. Souls accept what they know and stop striving upwards.

Trees are what paper was, and wants to be.

M]aybe we should have talked about this before. Well, we weren't gods, we couldn't go back and talk about it any earlier than now, but we could talk about it now. We go on from where we are.

There isn't an end point to excellence where you have it and you can stop. Being your best self means keeping on trying." She

And it was the landscape that formed us, that made us who we were as we grew in it, that affected everything.

Mal que em minha vida aprontei, foi numa certa meninice em sonhos – tudo corre e chega tão ligeiro –; será que se há lume de responsabilidades? Se sonha; já se fez...

Montagne che uno va salendo, per scoprire altre montagne. Ci sono cose di tutti i generi. Vivendo, s'impara; ma quel che s'impara, di più, è solo a fare altre e maggiori domande.

Todos estão loucos, neste mundo? Porque a cabeça da gente é uma só, e as coisas que há e as que estão para haver são demais de muitas, muito maiores diferentes, e a gente tem de necessitar de aumentar a cabeça, para o total.

Todos estão loucos, neste mundo? Porque a cabeça da gente é uma só, e as coisas que há e que estão para haver são demais de muitas, muito maiores diferentes, e a gente tem de necessitar de aumentar a cabeça, para o total.

Those are the things that cannot be learned by means of words and consequently cannot be taught by means of words.

In the world born from him, a person could now become anything.