Quotes About Growth

If you're not willing to risk you cannot grow, and if you cannot grow you cannot become your best, and if you cannot become your best, you cannot be happy.

To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become someone that you have never been before.

Never say you're having a bad day...say you're having a character building day

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.

You must give yourself love and open yourself to the possibilities of life. Whatever your dream, know that is possible to change your life and go after it. March Aurelius said, "The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults

peak-to-peek, conquering one peak and then peeking over the top to find another one to climb.

We may be through with our past, but the past isn't through with us.

inhabit. You may not accomplish every goal you set—no one does—but what really matters is having goals and going after them wholeheartedly. In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you achieve, that is most important.

Shoot for the moon- and if you don't get what you want, you'll still be among the stars. By making big plans and working for them, you change. You become somebody else. So even if you fail and don't get what you planned, you're somebody else. You'll say, "That's ok, I'll go do this other terrific thing.

Each difference in a relationship represents an opportunity for the participants to grow and stretch.

The distance a goldfish swims is not controlled by the bowl.

Human infants," writes psychologist Martin Seligman, "begin life more helpless than infants of any other species. In the course of the next decade or two, some acquire a sense of mastery over their surroundings; others acquire a profound sense of helplessness.

Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.

Once fallen, the blossom doesn't return to the branch

I do hope that our spring will be starting shortly and we will all be able to enjoy some sunshine again.

The boy who had survived by blending into the background had to accept that he would now be thrust into the foreground, into the unrelenting eye of the world.

In more metaphysical terms, it becomes a safe place in which one sleeps, dreams, and grows before emerging back into the world. Either way, it's a place not merely of shelter, but of incubation.

You have to find yourself. When you meet him again, you have to know who you are. He's finding out who he is.

Seeds of doubt, once planted, will grow.

Always there are walls, Rachael, she persisted. Walls that block our path. Too high, too hard. We stop to rest, to gather strength, and before we know it we have lived whole lives in their shade. In time, we cease to even see them there, casting their long shadows, blocking our path. We cease to yearn for the other side.

It sounds good," he said. "It's the caterpillar's spats!

Simon Templar, with the old careless swashbuckling days behind him, more stern and sober, playing bigger games than he had ever touched before – yet with the light of all the old ideals in blue eyes that would never grow old, and all the old laughing hell-for-leather recklessness waiting for his need.