Quotes About Growth

each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better 

Today my old skin has become as dust. I will walk tall among men and they will know me not, for today I am a new man, with a new life.

Take great comfort in knowing that all great feats are accomplished one small step at a time

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.

Whenever you come to a fork in the road, always choose the harder path, otherwise the path of least resistance will be chosen for you.

There ain't no feelin' in the world like takin' on somebody wilted and near bout gone, and you do what you can, and then all a-sudden the pore thang starts to put out new growth and git well.

Experience teaches us in a millennium what passion teaches us in an hour.

There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.

I think,' said Lyndall, 'that he is like a thorn-tree, which grows up very quietly, without any one's caring for it, and one day suddenly breaks out into yellow blossoms.

A man is made by his circumstances... If you want to change him, change his circumstances.

We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

To love yourself is a never-ending journey.

In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.

What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoy the process.