Quotes About Growth

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

I'm motivated by fear. Fear of fear. I hate being scared to do something. And I think what developed in my early days was the attitude that I started attacking things that I was scared of.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction

It's OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

If people had no fear, you'd hardly need to have to teach them. It's the fear that screws everything up.

The central question of a warrior's training is not how we avoid uncertainty and fear but how we relate to discomfort.

Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.

Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.

You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.

This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you—the fear just leaves

If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into increased aliveness, alertness, and creativity.

We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.