Quotes About Growth

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

You must have the courage to face what happened today and to live with it in your heart and to use the memory of it to grow and be strong.

Courage is a function of process.

Authenticity is also about the courage and the vulnerability to say, "Yeah, I'll try it. I feel pretty uncomfortable and I feel a little vulnerable, but I'll try it!"

For me acting is pretending. It's illuminating my human struggle - trying to grow and have the courage to be filmed while figuring things out.

All of the truly important battles are waged within the self. (7)

I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.

Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Unless one says goodbye to what one loves and unless one travels to completely new territories one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself.

Courage is the basic virtue for everyone so long as he continues to grow to move ahead.

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?

A change of heart is the essence of all other change and it has brought about me a reeducation of the mind.

rouble creates a capacity to handle it.

Basically, discipline, effort, patience and courage are hugely important core values for kids to grow up embracing.

My dad's probably one of the kindest people in the world. When I was younger that's not how I was- I was a little spoiled brat.

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

You don't remember the times your dad held your handle bars. You remember the day he let go.

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

When I was a kid, I thought my dad was a little bit harsh with me at times. Sometimes I needed an arm around me instead of my dad telling me what I did wrong, but it obviously worked.

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

Building my career hasn't been attached to my dad. It's been me figuring things out for myself.

A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes.

I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.