Quotes About Growth

Experience gives us confidence, but we never get experience unless we step out and try things we have not tried before.

As long as you think tomorrow is dependent on yesterday, your future will never be different from your past.

I believe people give their mistakes more power than they need. We should admit them, repent, and ask God to forgive us for them. We should also learn from our mistakes because by doing so, they can add value to our lives. Instead of allowing mistakes to make you feel guilty and bad, let them be your teacher, and always remember that just because you make a mistake does not mean you are a mistake.

Common people with uncommon goals who make an uncommon commitment can help an uncommon number of people who can also lead other common people to do uncommon things. Develop your potential to the full. And as you do, lead others in developing theirs. Be all you can be. Then help someone else be all they can be.

Your mess can become your ministry if you will have a positive attitude and decide to let everything you go through prepare you for what is ahead.

There are many people who aren't experiencing victory today because they are focused on yesterday. But

Leaders are not born; I believe they are made.

We pray for fruit in our lives, but we don't always want to pray for roots.

When you live in the garden of hope, something is always blooming!

What imagined deficiency or handicap in your life is holding you back?

Love Yourself Today: "Lord, I pray that I will continue to grow to love and accept myself in godly ways so the criticism and judgment of others will not hurt me or affect me negatively.

I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.

he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love

The pathway to change is to renew your mind.

As we leave this chapter, choose a habit you want to form and begin putting these principles into practice. Be patient with yourself. It takes time to create habits, and you may not succeed every day. If you realize you have failed, don't waste time being discouraged; just pick up where you left off and begin again. Be kind to yourself, because beating yourself up for every mistake is another bad habit that needs to be broken.

Whatever you run from will always be waiting for you somewhere else.

We need time to become rooted and grounded in Christ as we are instructed to do.

Don't make the mistake of letting your mistakes cause you to give up.

Oh, yes, we all want to help others reach their full potential, especially our children and grandchildren. But the bottom line is that none of us can do that for someone else, and no one else can do it for us. We must each do it for ourselves. We must each discover our own God-given gifts and talents, what we are truly capable of, and then put ourselves to the task of developing those gifts, talents and capabilities to their fullest extent.

Ordinary people can do extraordinary things if they apply the proper guidelines to their lives.

We learn as we go, not as we sit idly by and do nothing.

Father, I am asking that you change __________ if they truly need to change. If they don't, then change my heart and let me see my own error in thinking they do. I also ask that you change me in any way I need to change. Amen!

It's been my experience that most people aren't truly happy until they've had many reasons to be sad. I believe this is because it takes all of those bad days and hardships to teach us how to truly appreciate what we have. It builds our resilience."2

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis Would