Quotes About Growth

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.

All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

With unfailing kindness, your life always presents what you need to learn. Whether you stay home or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher is going to pop right up.

Without labor nothing prospers.

Children who have been in work for a long time suddenly get a thud down to earth once the cuteness fades, hips widen, voices drop and jawlines strengthen.

I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

Assume responsibility for outcomes as well as for the processes and people you work with. How you achieve results will shape the kind of person you become.

Without involvement, there is no commitment. Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, underline it." Stephen Covey "It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

Sometimes very small children in a proper environment develop a skill and exactness in their work that can only surprise us.

I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system.

God often does His best work in us when He catches us by surprise and introduces a change that is completely against our own desire.

The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

A successful Christian life will not be based on how much work we have done, but rather, on how close to the Lord we have become and how obedient we have been.

A work of art doesn't dare you to realize it. It germinates and gestates by itself.

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

The best thing you can do is work on your personality because we're all gonna get ugly.

Don't stop. Narrow your focus to one idea, and make it work. That will give birth to all of the others. All you can do is plant the seed and water it.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I use poetry to help me work through what I don't understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I've been.