Quotes About Growth

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Everyone wants to change, but change demands desire and discipline before it becomes delightful. There is always the agony of choice before the promise of change.

So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you're on the right track.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

One of the most delightful things about a garden is the anticipation it provides.

To grow in craft is to increase the bredth of what I can do, but art is the depth, the passion, the desire, the courage to be myself and myself alone.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

Where progress is desire, change is Inevitable.

Compulsive modernization is the insatiable desire to change and grow.

If a man be new-born, he will desire the sincere milk of the word.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

What drives me? In every mission I'm on, the thing that drives me most is the desire to find my limits-and extend them.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

I am in competition with no one. I have no desire to play the game of being better than anyone. I am simply trying to be better than the person I was yesterday.

Everything you desire is outside your comfort zone - otherwise, you would already have it.

We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.

In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead, we start to revive and kindle our desire to live more expansively.

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

I have this desire to keep improving, so I find fault.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.

Desire makes everything blossom

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.