Quotes About Growth

There is great stuff waiting for you on the other side of fear.

Ah! the terror and the delight of that moment when first we fear ourselves! Until then we have not lived.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.

There is a community of the spirit . . . Open your hands if you want to be held . . . Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking . . . Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

I have a little mantra: My fear grows fat on the energy I feed it. And if it grows very big, it probably happens.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

Fear is not always a sin but it always is an opportunity.

Emptiness is the pregnant void out of which all creation springs. But many of us fear emptiness. We prefer to remain...surrounded by things...we imagine are subject to our control.

Fear for a linchpin is a clue that you're getting close to doing something important.

Those who build and perpetuate mediocrity...are motivated more by the fear of being left behind.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

Fear is bound to disappear when you realize that failure is not something shameful, damaging, destructive, or painful, but something natural.

I had insecurities and fears like everybody does, and I got over it. But I was interested in the parts of me that struggled with those things.

The greatest mistake you can make is to fear making a mistake.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

The moment you conquer one fear is the minute you conquer many fears.

A fruit is not afraid of its own weight. It grows into its skin fully. It is whole, each part of its body equally alive.

Take inventory of yourself, see if any remnants of fear are standing in your way. Then you may grow... because nothing, absolutely nothing, can stand in your way.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?