Quotes About Growth

Continual learning is the key to continual living.

If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune." —Jim Rohn

every problem brings with it the seed of a solution

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." —Oliver Wendell Holmes

Have fun in everything you do. Challenge yourself to bigger and better things.

Continual learning is the key to continual living. If you stop learning you have effectively stopped living.

Perhaps the unwelcome event you've encountered is just an opportunity to help you know how to stand up stronger.

Hill once said: "Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities."4

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn." —Henry S. Haskins3

If you're not prepared to be wrong you'll never come up with something original." —Sir Ken Robinson4

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty." —Henry Ford5

The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

The first step to change,... is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow. But remember that the timing is in god's hands, not yours. page~147

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, 'Aarggh! Screwed up again!' Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.

I am as yet a storm of zero force. Almost a breath.

Each step you take reveals a new horizon. You have taken the first step today. Now, I challenge you to take another.

I love California; I practically grew up in Phoenix.

I've never believed in measuring one's worth by the size of his or her bank account. I prefer to look at distance traveled.

Education is not about just planting a seed; it is also about nurturing, over many decades, a productive, meaningful, and happy life.

Progress cannot be only intuited. It must be written, and read.

every relationship you are in will fail, until one doesn't

We expect perfection and we're constantly disappointed. If we could adjust our expectations—if our expectations were more realistic—more relationships that could and should survive would survive.