Quotes About Growth

The distance doesn't matter. Just think about your next step.

Try to be grateful for every setback or tragedy, because by living through them, you become stronger.

the trick to doing almost anything difficult was to act like someone else, someone who belonged.

in life is to endure, to be kind, and to constantly put the past behind us and not dwell too much on the future. If you must look back, try to find the beauty and the benefit in every cruelty done to you.

I have come to believe after eighty-one years on this earth that our job in life is to endure, to be kind, and to constantly put the past behind us and not dwell too much on the future.

She told me once that she believed that life does not happen to you; it happens for you, and that your whole life is a blessed journey of discovery. But you can only see life clearly and relish it when the journey is almost at an end.

you become stronger, more supported. It is a law of nature.

She told me once that she believed that life does not happen to you; it happens for you, and that your whole life is a blessed journey of discovery.

Don't chew on the bad things that happen to you, dear. Try to see the beauty in every cruelty. It sets you free. Forgive hurt if you want to heal a broken heart. Try to be grateful for every setback or tragedy, because by living through them, you become stronger. I

Gheorghe returned his hand to his heart. "So live here, Martel. Love life like it is a miracle every day, every moment, and dream in a way that helps others, and the Divine will hear you and you will walk through battles untouched and have anything your heart desires.

the two steps back (the falling) are as important as the three steps forward.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.