Quotes About Growth

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

I dreamed a thousand new paths... I woke and walked my old one.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing, and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.

All of the top achievers I know are life-long learners... Looking for new skills, insights, and ideas. If they're not learning, they're not growing... not moving toward excellence.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they doing to me? What have they got me reading? What have they got me saying? Where do they have me going? What do they have me thinking? And most important, what do they have me becoming? Then ask yourself the big question: Is that okay? Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.

The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.

When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.

Nothing is unthinkable, nothing impossible to the balanced person, provided it comes out of the needs of life and is dedicated to life's further development

I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

Life does not require us to make good; it asks only that we give our best at each level of experience.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.