Quotes About Growth

He wanted to change her past, but even as he thought it, he realized it was her very past that had shaped her into a woman who fascinated him.

I was proud of you today, handling William Long the way you did." Her fingers stilled. "What did you think of him the first time you met him?" she asked quietly. "That he was the kind of man you should have married." "And now you don't think that anymore?" "Now, it doesn't matter. You're married to me." "I was the night you met him." Jake's eyes met and held hers in the moonlight. "No, you weren't. Not really." His arm tightened around her. "But you are now.

She'd been a silly girl then, full of childish dreams. Sometimes she missed that young girl.

Shame, when she was younger, had stopped her. Fear, as she grew older, trapped the truth within her.

But she'd lost a good deal of her innocence there, because she'd discovered so much she couldn't control.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I will make it a productive one.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.

I once wanted to save the world. Now I just want to leave the room with some dignity.

I had to learn I wasn't deaf. I had to start speaking out.

Gardening requires lots of water — most of it in the form of perspiration.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

There's opportunity in poker.... If Horace Greeley were alive today, his advice wouldn't be "Go West, young man, and grow up with the country." Instead, he'd point to that deck of cards on table and say, "Shuffle up and deal.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

As with most things in life, it's that little hop at the end…

Success in many of life's most important endeavors begins with a commitment to act like the person you hope to become.

Muscles grow for a variety of reasons, but the main one is strength. If you force them to get stronger, they will get bigger. If you start lifting 100 pounds five times, but train your body to lift 150 pounds five times, you're going to end up with bigger muscles. But if you start off lifting 50 pounds ten times, and progress to lifting the same 50 pounds fifteen times, all you've done is increase the endurance of the muscles, which by itself will not make them bigger.

Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.

At some point you have to park your past and put yellow caution tape around it so you don't keep going back to it. Because there's nothing like lounging around in your past and all that self-pity.

Comfort and familiarity are not what God points us toward. Jesus isn't in the business of flying to and fro for the rest of our lives, hand-delivering spiritual baby food to us.

Some of us have incredible potential, but we don't want to try anything bold because we don't want to fail. The easy choice: live in the relative safety of mediocrity because we think that's better than rejection.