Quotes About Growth

When you are gripped by fear in the face of an experience that will take you beyond your comfort zone, you may be at a point of supreme opportunity. You can either break down or break through.

Run towards that very thing that you fear, because there's amazing blessings on the other side.

Fear drives you and makes you better.

A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

Neither fear nor resist change - cultivate it.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.

Fear dims when you learn things.

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

We grow fearless by walking into our fears.

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done.

Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.

Don't be afraid of failure. Never fear it because there's always a lesson if you're open to it. There's always a lesson at the end of it. Always.

So many times, people are afraid to start something because of fear of failing. But it can be fabulous - because it leads you to the next thing.

My one fear is failure and that's one fear I have to face all the time. Yes, it's uncomfortable to be scared but I'm finally comfortable being uncomfortable.

Every day do something that frightens you.

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.

Be larger than your task.

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

It seems like the more you grow up the more you fear things.

An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.

You have to be careful not to let your fear stop you doing things. It's very exciting to test yourself.

I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?