Quotes About Growth

It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

I told graduates to not be afraid to fail, and I still believe that. But today I tell you that whether you fear it or not, disappointment will come. The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized.

There are few things more liberating in life than having your worst fear realized.

Everything gets better with time; how much time is up to us. It's dependent on when we choose to change the stories we tell about our lives; when we decide to spend more time creating the life we want than lamenting the hand we've been dealt; and when we realize that no one's love, forgiveness, or acceptance can be as profoundly healing as our own. Maybe if I stopped trying to control how I hurt, I'd feel a pain that would teach me what I need to do to love life more and need pain less.

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

On the bathing-tub of King T'ang the following words were engraved: "If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day. Yea, let there be daily renovation."

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

To be fond of learning is to be near to knowledge. To practice with vigor is to be near to magnanimity. To possess the feeling of shame is to be near to energy.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Why do you have sons, if not to grow up and test their boldness? Boldness cannot be laid like bones in the sack. It must be driven and again shown on the light, each time stronger than the last. You're mistaken if you think you can keep it, until you need it. It's like everything else, that gives you strength. If you neglect it, your sack will be empty, when you need it the most.

When I think that I've mastered the game, it appears that every time I discover that I was playing blindly on some larger board.

Let us accept each coming day and make the best possible choices

There is no greater ordeal for a gifted men than to raise a son

The things I've seen ... no, the things I've done ." He shuddered slightly as memories flashed into his mind. "I was as innocent. I thought I understood the world, but I was little more than a child.

A young man, who's marching like a leopard, can't keep himself by the mistakes of the past.

An earlier start can break their spirit; go later and their spirit has already gotten hardened in the wrong place