Quotes About Growth

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14.

Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

Mos Def is a name that I built and cultivated over the years it's a name that the streets taught me a figure of speech that was given to me by the culture and by my environment and I feel I've done quite a bit with that name and it's time to expand and move on.

I couldn't do my show without spending 12 years on the streets of Humboldt Park. It made me a better interrogator. Still, if they had taken me out of my squad car and gave me a show, I would've been terrible. But on 'Springer,' the spotlight was on Jerry and I got to grow up within the show.

On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.

From age nine, my friends and I were on the streets, walking home, going to each other's houses, going to the store. I really wanted to write about that: the independence that's a little bit scary but also a really positive thing in a lot of ways.

He's been the greatest father for me. Going around the streets of Chicago with my dad, people always tell me they can't believe how much my dad has matured. Or, 'You wouldn't believe how your dad used to be.' There's always lots of words about how much he's changed.

I cannot get away from 'Streets,' like, no matter what I do! That was my very first professional job.

I was not ready fresh out of high school to hit the streets of Nashville.

Especially in black communities, we've been so groomed to stay where we are and not like people in the other neighborhoods. It's crazy. It won't allow people to experience life and see what the world truly has to offer. People are stuck in their ways, stuck in their communities, stuck on their streets.

I Am' is the album that displays a little growth. The record, to me, is bringing the streets back.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

Disappointment builds character and strength.

And also, there's a reason why gay characters are so interesting. Because much like the women in Bridgerton,' there are a lot of hurdles and there's a lot of self-growth, and there's a real strength to gay men.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.

I was small until I was 15, then grew about 12 inches in a year and built up my strength in the gym.

A robust economy is a source of national strength for Japan.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.

Building mental strength is the key to reaching our full potential in life.

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

Our manufacturing in India has grown with a lot of indigenous strength.