Quotes About Growth

You're the person you are today because of everything that has happened to you.

That's what life is about, isn't it? We're all works in progress, aren't we, just trying to become a little better every day?

People make mistakes. You can either let it eat away at you from the inside until you're hallowed out and have nothing good left. Or you can learn to accept that none of us can change our past. All we can do is move forward and make something better out of the rest of our days

Nobody wants to have hard things happen to them. But I wouldn't have become the person I am without going through that time. It made me stronger, more kind, more compassionate.

The best things in life don't come from taking the easy path, do they?

aren't we lucky that the terrible choices we made when we were young don't have to define us for the rest of our lives?

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all given one do-over in life?" she murmured. "One free pass to go back and change one action, one decision, one thoughtless word?" He gave her a searching look, as if trying to figure out what moment she would alter.

I used to wonder what I was doing wrong. Now I know: just about everything.

Maybe becoming a monster is a sign of strength.

How far we've come, Jeff," Brian whispered to the cold, wet streets. "How far the geeky boys have come.

You could become anyone, including your real self.

Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.

It often seems that we live in a bottom line society, where the final score or final grade is all that matters. Exceptional children grow to understand that the journey is everything.

Education is great … but it's really my creativity that's taught me that I can be much more than what my education told me I am.

developing countries typically have higher inflation, and developing countries also have higher growth.

firms do not borrow as much to invest when rates are higher and individuals stop buying durable goods against credit and, instead, turn to save. Lower demand growth leads to a better match between demand and supply, and thus lower inflation for the goods being produced.

The eventual aim was to build a 4,000-acre high-tech park, called Alpha Technopolis, to rival Taiwan's famous Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park. The vision was grand, perhaps overly so.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan once quipped "If you want to build a great city, create a great university and wait 200 years."11

Parenting is a process of mutual growth, during which parents and children grow on different levels through their interactions and through the elements they bring into one another's lives.

Everything that is worth winning, is worth loosing as well.

But the more I focused on my interests, the more it brought out things I liked about myself

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within.

In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.