Quotes About Growth

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Akan jadi apakah kita, bergantung pada apa yang kita baca setelah semua profesor menyelesaikan urusannya dengan kita

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

Ceea ce devenim depinde in mare masura de ce citim.

The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

I want to try get rid of this rep.

Minds are like parachutes...they only function when they are open.

in everything we do in this life we are making ourselves the kind of persons we shall be for all eternity: loving or hateful, egocentric or outgoing, fulfilled or frustrated, beautiful or ugly, ecstatically delighted or utterly miserable.

Living things grow gradually, and communion with God, being the supreme of all living realities, likewise matures imperceptibly,

63 St. John of the Cross, Counsels to a Religious on How to Reach Perfection, no. 2, p. 662.

You never know how your kids are going to turn out. You can raise them with all the best intentions, and then they're own people, and they have their own inner conflicts. You just hope you've given them some good stuff to navigate with.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

There are lots of people building the next TransferWise, not in a sense of competing with us but in a sense of building large, successful companies that are doing something important. I just enjoy helping these founders navigate the journey.