Quotes About Growth

In order to practice sincerely and to develop patience," he says, "you need someone who willfully hurts you.

Rather than squeeze everybody into preordained roles, my goal has always been to foster an environment where the players can grow as individuals and express themselves creatively within a team structure.

Winning is about moving into the unknown and creating something new.

Now that all of our children were out of the house, she was looking forward to creating a new, more fulfilling life. So was I—or so I thought. I explored other interests, including giving speeches on leadership.

They developed the confidence to bounce back from adversity and tap into a source of inner strength many of them had never experienced before. They faced their demons head-on and didn't blink.

Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but . . . life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ

I added that Red Holzman used to say that "the real mark of a star was how much better he made his teammates.

For some reason, God is telling me to move on, and I must move on," he said. "People have to learn that nothing lasts forever." Then we tried to figure out a way that he could compete in the playoffs without playing

Looking back, I think my struggle with Jerry taught me things about myself that I couldn't have learned any other way. The Dalai Lama calls it "the enemy's gift." From a Buddhist perspective, battling with enemies can help you develop greater compassion for and tolerance of others.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself. ZEN PROVERB

if you continue to do what you've always done, you will continue to have what you've always had.

If you do different, you will have different. If you begin to require more of yourself, that in and of itself is different.

Hey, dummy, you might want to take the time and learn to fly before you do this again!

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

Just as dead men make lousy ministers, dead organizations make lousy ministries. The

We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard. But life has a way of humbling us, of softening us.

C]hildren. . . like all living things, grow best in the loosened soil of relaxed oversight.

When we're young, we think we know all there is to know. Then we grow older, and the more we learn, the more we realize how little we actually know. It takes a wise man to realize just how much he doesn't know.

When we're young, we think we know all there is to know. Then we grow older, and the more we learn, the more we realize how little we actually know.

First, humiliation, then humility, he would have said. And then comes humanity as a matter of course.

When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be scientific.

Tomorrow morning, he decided, I'll begin clearing away the sand of fifty thousand centuries for my first vegetable garden. That's the initial step.

It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To spread out, reach areas, experiences, comprehend and live in an evolving fashion. To push aside routine and repetition, to break out of mindless monotony and thrust forward. To keep moving on . . .

The termination of a relationship, he said, is not a misunderstanding. It's a reorganization of life.