Quotes About Growth

Things will get better only when you make the changes that are necessary to make them better.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

A man has to know his limitations.

It's got to be the going not the getting there that's good

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl. -In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, and disciplined.

But doing something means that people must change, make an effort, use their minds, which is what most people do not like to do.

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Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it it was my great refuge through adolescence.

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Perhaps, he thought, true pure love, like all flowers, flourished best with its roots in muck and mud. Perhaps that was a law of life that held everything together.

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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.

Actions are the seeds of fate. Deeds grow into destiny.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

Harry Shapiro

An expert is someone who doesn't want to learn anything new, because then he would not be an expert