Quotes About Growth

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I'm upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing, you're always right.' No, they tell me when I'm wrong, and that's why I've been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

Many times I've lied, many times I've listened, many times I've wondered how much there is to know.

It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

Been to yesterdays, lived through todays. Looking on toward tomorrows - new characters, new plays. The whys of life change, and so do ways, new scenery is built, to fill an empty stage.

Someday you will understand that life can't flow as you always planned.

There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That's the end. That's when the coffin is closed.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.

Seek to understand the root. It is futile to argue as to which single leaf, which design of branch, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.

Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning.

Nurture an appetite for being puzzled, for being confused, indeed for being openly stupid, and that - despite what you may think - is very difficult...We all know the cliche' that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. It is also true that a lot of knowledge can be a dangerous thing as well...use your ignorance as well as your knowledge for creative means.

A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life.

Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

The new industrial world is coming to us one new free-born industry at a time.

Today it's just a wound. It takes a long time before you realize it's become a scar.