Quotes About Growth

Every year, improve your knowledge résumé through self-education. Otherwise, you'll have to claw, scratch, or repeat your way to semi-success in life.

It's okay to make mistakes; just make new ones!

The best general definition I have ever read is in the noted philosopher and writer Milton Mayeroff's 1972 book On Caring: "Love is the selfless promotion of the growth of the other." When you are able to help others grow to become the best people they can be, you are being loving—and you, too, grow.

you'll never get dumber by making someone else smarter.

What comes out of the mind is what you put in the mind. You must feed your mind like you feed your body.

When you give to grow others' capabilities, you create abundance in their lives. No matter who you are, you can give power to people too. It's a matter of understanding what intangible value you have that's worth sharing.

Feed Your Mind Good Stuff, Exercise Your Gratitude Muscle, Prepare Yourself.

What makes people between the ages of eleven and fifteen such mean jerks? I'd rather be ninety-five than thirteen again.

Do you believe love is a chemical reaction between two people?" "At first it is. Then, theoretically, it grows into something more. Or dies.

Here's the deal: 90 percent of the time, whatever you do will turn out to be a mistake, but that's still better than doing nothing, which is always a mistake.

I knew all these things were true. Wild Bill may have called me into coming to the place where I would experience this adventure, but Bill had crashed out, and I had pulled myself through and had come away with a sense of myself I didn't have before.

Age is a scalpel, cutting out bits of what we are. Second after second. Day after day. Year after year

during tough times, "Leaders stretch to the challenge, while followers shrink from the challenge.

One of the biggest differences between leaders and followers is that leaders are learners.

No one is going to put rumble strips in your life for you. That is up to you. Your rumble strips may not be the same as mine, and mine may not be the same as yours. But everyone needs rumble strips. It all begins with self-leadership; before we talk about leading a church or a business, we must talk about being a leader worth following.

And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve.

I have so many things to work on, and so many ways that I fail. But that's what grace is all about. and I constantly wake up every morning trying to get better, trying to improve, trying to walk closer to God.

She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to start reading her mind. She doesn't want me to dress better or put highlights in my hair or serious up. I'm not a lifestyle accessory to her. I'm a necessity. I'm the guy that's going to crack open her cocoon. She doesn't need to change me - she needs me to change her. At least until her little butterfly wings get strong enough to fly away.

it's fine to live in the now. but the best thing about now is that there's another one tomorrow. i'm going to start making them count.

The real world is coming, chugging straight at me like a bulldozer into the rain forest.

You know how when you see someone day in, day out, year after year, you don't really notice him getting taller or wider or older or whatever? It can be like that with the way people are on the inside too.

This idea comes to me that we're all grass blades on the same lawn. We've grown up together, shoulder to shoulder, under the same sun, drinking the same rain. But you know what happens to grass blades—somebody cuts them down just when they reach their prime.

it's not too late for me.

It's too big to change. It's too heavy and all sharp-cornered and shit.