Quotes About Growth

Inuring children gently to suffer some degrees of pain without shrinking, is a way to gain firmness to their minds, and lay a foundation for courage and resolution in the future part of their lives.

One of the marks of excellent people is that they never compare themselves with others. They only compare themselves with themselves and with their past accomplishments and future potential.

The future is a process, not a destination.

We pick up the lost bits and pieces, from the grass where we left them, and bring them with us into a future that will be made up of so much more as well.

There's no need for us to be held back by the past or how things have been so far. The important thing is what seeds we are sowing now for the future.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

And I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.

You gotta keep things moving. If leaving behind the past means you can have a better future, then, sure, why not?

The way we understand both our present and our future depends on what we have lived through.

Do not dwell on what once was, but rather look forward and ponder how you can make the future brighter

One cannot build a future based on the description of a criminal past.

There's a lot more future in hamburgers than in baseball.

Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe

I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.

Why don't you focus on where you're going and less on where you came from?

Don't regret your past...It has shaped you. Don't fear your future...It is yours to shape.

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

Your hater is your future fan in a way. Cause when it's different they don't really take to it at first, but after you look back on it you get a chance to reflect on it.

A mistake is a future benefit, the full value of which is yet to be realized.

In the business world, management is always viewed in terms of productivity. Why? Because productivity is the key to the success of the organization and to your future as a manager.

If we want a new future that does not look like our past, we must make new choices in the present.