Quotes About Growth

Adversity enhances this tale we call life.

Can plants be happy? If they get what they need, they thrive — that's what I know.

Green leafy happiness and cherry-red life, bursting with seeds.

It is a gift when someone can challenge you and open your mind to new ideas.

On his sixth birthday, Steve received a scrub python as a gift from his parents. "Fred the scrubby was my best friend growing up," Steve said. "The problem was, he was so big, and I was still little. He could have eaten me without a worry.

It felt as though I had died and was starting over with a new life. I mentally reviewed my years as a child growing up in Oregon, as an adult running my own business, then meeting Steve, becoming his wife and the mother of our children. Now, at age forty-two, I was starting again.

Do not allow others to make your path for you. It is your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you. Accept yourself and your actions. Own your thoughts. Speak up when wrong, and apologize. Know your path at all times. To do this you must know yourself inside and out, accept your gifts as well as your shortcomings, and grow each day with honesty, integrity, compassion, faith, and brotherhood.

Develop a Plan for Personal Growth Success is something you attract by the person you become. —Jim Rohn

YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE WHERE YOU ARE UNTIL YOU SEE WHERE YOU'D RATHER BE! –

When your surroundings are infused with memories of the past, you tend to remain in the past. You are prone to keep looking back rather than focusing forward on the new things God has for you.

The secret of your success is hidden in your daily routine."[1]

The more you learn, the hungrier you are to learn more. You can't get enough. You begin to crave knowledge and wisdom as much as you used to crave sitting on a couch vegging out to reality shows.

Make your dreams bigger than your memories

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. You see, success, doesn't suddenly occur one day in someone's life. For that matter, neither does failure. Each is a process. Every day of your life is merely preparation for the next. What you become is the result of what you do today.

You change yourself by changing something you do each day.

It's one thing to stop speaking negative, debilitating words over yourself, but you've got to take it a step further by replacing those words with positive declarations over yourself and your future.

Taking responsibility for where you are in life at this moment is your foundation for success. It means you accept responsibility for the things you do and the things you fail to do. Living an excuse-free life starts you on the pathway to success.

Once upon a time, they say, there was a girl...there was a boy...there was a person who was in trouble. And this is what she did...and what he did...and how they learned to survive it. This is what they did...and why one failed...and why another triumphed in the end. And I know that it's true, because I danced at their wedding and drank their very best wine.

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.

TRIALS DEVELOP YOUR CHARACTER, PREPARING YOU FOR INCREASED BLESSINGS.

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

Admitting that you do not know something is the first step to learning.

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey.