Quotes About Growth

I feel like I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, which is both settling and terrifying. The roller coaster is going, and there is no jumping off at this point unless I just go nuclear. It's a really interesting part of the whole journey.

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

Sometimes, you don't see what you've got to change unless something happens, like a loss.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Saying 'I'm wrong' is meaningless unless it comes from our heart, not just our lips. That often requires a genuine and profound change within ourselves, because we need to realize it's simply human nature and that everyone makes mistakes.

I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there.

The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores.

Governments can't credibly claim to be concerned about stagnant growth and ageing workforces unless they are actively seeking to empower women economically. One way they can speed up progress towards gender-equal economic opportunity is to change laws that are holding women back.

Like having a child, running a startup is the sort of experience that's hard to imagine unless you've done it yourself.

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow.

If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

I hope more women see, at least eventually, that a healthy relationship isn't anything that breaks you down.

A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?

Not many people do at the age of 21 or younger even, know how to act nor could be concerned with anything other than fighting, women and money.

When young girls are encouraged to explore what they find interesting, they grow up to be interesting women.

If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.