Quotes About Growth

There is no failure. Only feedback.

Yes, I am a failure…And I don't know how to react, but I am happy because I know how to RE-ACT.

In a day when you don't come across any problems, you can be sure that you are travelling on a wrong path.

We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better prepared we are to deal with the inevitable obstacles along our path.

No garden is without its weeds.

I am a product of my failures.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.

There was definitely a moment when something quite magical happened and we both agree that it transformed our relationship.

My family is really good at letting go of things and moving on.

I think I'm a better person because of my family.

Learning in our family was entirely self-directed.

The family is the nucleus of civilization.

A lot of problems stem from a desire to avoid discomfort. For example, people who fear failure often avoid new challenges in an effort to keep anxiety at bay. Avoiding emotional discomfort, however, is usually a short-term solution that leads to long-term problems.

I like to do something I fear.

You have to get outside of your comfort zone if you're going to make significant changes in your life, and since few things scare people like the unknown, feeling fear is an excellent sign that you're on the right track.

The key to growth is acknowledging your fear of the unknown and jumping in anyway.

My biggest fear is mindlessly and stupidly repeating myself.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

I don't fear pain or failure anymore because I'm too grateful for the pains and failures of my past – they have made me who I am, and most of the good things in my life are a direct result of them in some way.

"A new friendship is like an unripened fruit – it may become either an orange or a lemon."

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which strengthens with the setting sun of life.

Defensiveness often reveals an area of our lives where we're in denial.

"It's funny, I spent the first half of my life desperately trying not to become my mother, and now I am spending the second half of my life desperately hoping to become half the woman that she is."