Quotes About Growth

Young guys in this league don't understand urgency. These guys don't understand that you never know what the league brings, the times may bring. I think they do understand what it takes to win here, and they continue to learn that.

Film and television were out. I was 24, and it went on until I was 36. For an actor, those are your years. I got a great urgency and education during the blacklist, and it made me grow up in a way I never could have before, and in very good ways, too.

Still, whether we like it or not, the task of speeding up the decrease of the human population becomes increasingly urgent.

Both organizations are growing rapidly due in part to answering the urgent need in the community for services and programs to help with the day-to-day struggles that come with memory disorders.

Home-health and personal-care work is one of the country's fastest-growing occupational sectors. But it is one marked by low pay and meager benefits, a problem that might become more urgent as the U.S.'s population continues to age.

You think life is a beautiful thing, and you've got to live accordingly. You've got to magnify all your better feelings and better urges and better conscious ideas, and that's your life's evolvement.

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

There's a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

Each of us is carving a stone, erecting a column, or cutting a piece of stained glass in the construction of something much bigger than ourselves.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.

Under promise and over deliver. People will be pleasantly surprised that you gave more than they expected. And remember that there is always room for us to be better and do better. That's what I am calling for. Not just everybody else - myself, too.

Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

The only thing holding us back is ourselves.