Quotes About Growth

I had written hundreds of memos during my 26 years at the company, and all had shared a common thread. They were about self-examination in the pursuit of excellence, and a willingness not to embrace the status quo. This is a cornerstone of my leadership philosophy.

Even though we both won championships that year, it was events that meant more to me than what happened on the ice. It was those lessons I learned just preceding and during the championship season, which still affect me to this very day.

Therapy opened me up and enabled me to appreciate how fulfilling it was to be truly heard. That led me to the thought: "You know, somebody else might actually have something to say. Let's just sit here and listen and not make it all about you.

The important thing you need to learn is to stop repeating the same mistakes over and over again.

They can live as guardian angels for a while as part of their spiritual development.

The sense of fancy growing out of the sense of fact—which makes all healthy personalities and gives a touch of romance and glory to all of life—first appears as the unrestrained imaginings of youth.

Being happily and successfully married is generally not so much a matter of marrying the right person as it is being the right person.

When I was a little baby, my mama she said "Son. Travel where you will and grow to be a man And sing what must be sung, poor boy Sing what must be sung."

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.

Let's not be afraid...there is always a step after the last step.

Het leven is niet mogelijk zonder het leergeld van de ontgoocheling.

An intellectual crisis is such an invigorating walk in a freezing rain!

I began to read. What I discovered in books led me to think, to question, to explore, and finally to redirect my life.

When I began to read, a whole new world opened to me. I became interested in books. I still could not read very well, but each new book made it easier. I did not mind spending many hours, because reading was enjoyment, rather than work. When I reached this point, I accumulated books and read one after another. I did this all through my senior year in high school and the summer following. By the time I really knew my way through a book, I had graduated from high school.

Jumping at several small opportunities may get us there more quickly than waiting for one big one to come along.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

The Roman Church has grown and grown, fueled by immigration but also renewed by two pontiffs who have seemed to understand what Tocqueville knew: People want guidance for their souls once they are convinced they have them.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

No two gardens are the same. No two days are the same in one garden.

There weren't many good things to be said or felt about my situation. Not many at all. But the rule is that after any engagement, won or lost, you replay it in you mind to see how much you can learn. So that's what I did...

I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.