Quotes About Growth

We are the sum total of what we have done and where we have been

I'm tired of sackcloth and

I don't try to correct yesterday's mistakes in the present. I mark them off. I truly mark them off. A person hurts me only once.

But please don't be taken aback. Age is not kind, and it leaves a mean stamp on an elderly man's perceptions.

Time had removed him and it would not allow him to go back.

What kind of trees are those? I asked. Heartwood, my father said. They grow in layers, like the spirit does. That's what Grandpa Sam used to say, anyway. You just got to keep the roots in a clear stream and not let nobody taint the water for you.

Our pasts shape us,Sam.None of us the person he or she used to be,it's true, but what we are still contains a great proportion of what we once were.Nothing,not even suffering the worst kind of tragedy,alters us completely.At core,we are set in stone.

Without really trying to or meaning to, Mal had become the head of a family, and it was a family that took the fun out of dysfunctional.

if you want to have a significant impact on people, on organizations, and on communities, you'd be wise to invest in learning the behaviors that enable you to become the very best leader you can.

Leaders provide opportunities for people to exceed their previous levels of performance.

You never know where one step will take you, and you never know where the next one will lead. The

Only those who believe they can get better make an effort to do so.

Whigs and Republicans supported all kinds of "improvements" to promote economic growth and upward mobility—internal improvements" in the form of roads, canals, railroads, and the like; tariffs to protect American industry and labor from low-wage foreign competition; a centralized, rationalized banking system.

They find "sources of strength in the self to develop the self.

She learned as she led, and led as she learned.

This is what happens when a boy becomes a man. You get stupider.

He felt like a radio tuning in to a new channel, one that was beginning to fuzz into range, slowly coming in clear, proper, the way his Hettie had always wanted him to be. The new feeling humbled him.

Is this what love does? It changes you this way? It allows you to see the past this clearly?

was. The constant learning and

you're still breathing. Every day is a new world.

Well, I reckon to really understand the world, you got to die at least once.

Nor do I try to keep a garden, only An avocado in a glass of water -- Roots pallid, gemmed with air. And later, When the small gilt leaves have grown Fleshy and green, I let them die, yes, yes, And start another. I am earth's no less.

Our little party Got under way as best it could. The twigs Unclenched, the greedy rosebuds caked with smut. The ill-knit creatures, now in hues Of sunstroke, mulberry, white of clown, Yellow of bile, bruise-blacks-and-blues, Stumped outward, waving matchstick arms, Colliding, poking, hurt, in tears

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries