Quotes About Growth

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves -- to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.

You change your life by changing your heart.

Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.

All the concepts about stepping out of your comfort zone mean nothing until you decide that your essential purpose, vision and goals are more important than your self-imposed limitations.

Learn how to live, and you'll know how to die; learn how to die, and you'll learn how to live.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Remember, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.