Quotes About Growth

Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.

We have to figure out how to let go, and forgive. This is our job

Often we can't reach what is in front of us until we let go what is behind. Don't let your struggle become your identity.

The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself even a little is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable.

One well-cultivated talent deepened and enlarged is worth one hundred shallow faculties.

It made me gladsome to be getting some education it being like a big window opening.

Forgive others often yourself never.

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

Only through freedom and environmental experience is it practically possible for human development to occur.

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher.

I think that not being perfect has given me the freedom to keep getting better.

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged to try skills without fear of failure.

Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Enlightenment is an accident, but some activities make you accident-prone.

Every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.

Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another.

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.