Quotes About Growth

My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She thought the key was to find the healing in the hurt.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

Remember that person you wanted to be? There's still time.

And when something wasn't working, you changed it. Breakdowns lead to breakthroughs.

You can't take your same old self into a bright new future. You would only darken it.

No person is great in and of themselves; they must touch the lives of other great beings that will inspire them, lift them, and push them forward.

Mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Being a leader is a study in managed frustration.

Leaders lead for the joy of creating something bigger than themselves.

Our failures should not define us, but rather they should refine us.

Certainly, experience is a large ingredient, although unexamined experience provides no advancement. Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

although unexamined experience provides no advancement. Thirty years of experience at something, if not properly comprehended and applied, could result in no more than the equivalent of one year's experience repeated thirty times.

Orrin Woodward relates this principle to people who claim to have thirty years of work experience, when actually in many cases, they merely have one year of experience thirty times over.

many of the top masters in their fields long ago had to learn to stop listening to themselves and instead begin talking to themselves.

if the wrong people are not criticizing you, then you may not be doing the right things!

Nothing of significance was ever achieved without negative input from other people.

the greater good needs you to cut your guilt loose so you can get on with making a contribution. It needs you to forgive yourself.

I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

I can say that I am only human and I have made mistakes. I can say that I try to live my life in the most true, honest way that I can. I am not perfect, no one is. No one is harder on me than me. No one can please everyone. No one can live in the past and expect to grow. I have been moving forward and hope that I am not defined by just a few moments in my life but all of the moments that will make up my life.

I'm not running away. But this is one corner of one country on one continent on one planet that's a corner of a galaxy that's a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond, and there is so much, so much, to see, Amy. Because it goes so fast. I'm not running away from things, I am running to them. Before they flare and fade forever.

The key isn't winning -- or losing, it's making the attempt. I may never be what I ought to be, want to be -- but how will I know unless I try? Sure, it's scary, but what's the alternative? Stagnation - A safer, more terrible form of death. Not of the body, but of the spirit. An animal knows what it is, and accepts it. A man may know what he is -- but he questions. He dreams. He strives. Changes. Grows.

almost a grown man, yet when it came to his mutant

People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.