Quotes About Growth

You should never read just for enjoyment. Read to make yourself smarter! Less judgmental. More apt to understand your friends' insane behavior, or better yet, your own.

In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.

I shall never forgive you for teaching me how to love life.

a line from Søren Kierkegaard appeared on the first page to which I flipped: "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." I

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

We will begin by learning how to tie our shoes.

It's always about focusing not on the mistakes but on the lessons learned from them.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.

If I am through learning, I am through.

It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.

Lincoln himself once said, "The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves." He fiercely believed in self-sufficiency, and in the maturity and character that struggles and hardships can bring.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

The worst things you can do for the ones you love are the things they could and should do for themselves"—and

Its what you learn when you know it all that counts

I am not what I ought to be, Not what I want to be, Not what I am going to be, But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be. It

He told me that he always insisted on two things above all else in his players: That they were always trying to improve and always willing to put the team above themselves. If they weren't willing to do those things, he didn't want them at UCLA.

don't worry much about trying to be better than someone else.

Always try to be the very best that you can be. Learn from others, yes. But don't just try to be better than they are.

when coaches or parents make consistency their foundation, everyone around them becomes more comfortable and everyone around them has a greater opportunity to grow.