Quotes About Growth

We can have courage or we can have comfort, but we cannot have both.

When something undesirable grows in my soul, I ask God to give me the courage to mercilessly pluck it out.

You must be the person you have never had the courage to be. Gradually, you will discover that you are that person, but until you can see this clearly, you must pretend and invent.

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

Change of any sort requires courage.

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won't change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.

It takes courage to reinvent joys, to reinvent opportunities, to reinvent dreams, to reinvent connections, to reinvent hopes that you have set aside.

Everyone including YOU suffers when you refuse to BE all & DO all you can.

Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure in order to embrace the new & unknown.

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

Underneath the visible problems with reading and writing lies the deeper problem of 'illearnacy': an acquired disabling of learning courage and learning initiative.

... rarely if ever does one feel sure one knows enough to go ahead with much of anything new. You bank on faith and courage and the ability to learn on the job.

Courage is like a strain of yoghurt culture, if you have some you can have some more.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

The courage to face the trials and to bring a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience - that is the hero's deed.

And have the courage to accept that you're not perfect; nothing is, and no one is - and that's OK.

We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

We grow our courage muscles like we grow our physical muscles, by using them.

Courage is necessary to make being and becoming possible.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

True strength is the courage to admit our weaknesses.