Quotes About Growth

No matter how you define success, risk is a necessary ingredient of every successful life. Risk puts you in position to win.

gratitude makes for soul-growth.

we should turn our most unsparing criticism toward ourselves. None is so perfect that there is no room for improvement.

Adaptability is the quality which makes for progress,

Je regarde à travers mes pleurs. Ici la mort a pour voisine la croissance des palmiers nains : Ton corbillard, ô ma Delphine ! n'est qu'un oiseau des boulingrins. Quand je fus fatigué de larmes, las des voyages et malheurs, un coin de violettes de Parme avança le pied du Seigneur.

La mort est un printemps qui n'est pas éphémère.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.

The past does not have to be your prison. You have a voice in your destiny. You have a say in your life. You have a choice in the path you take.

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

We cannot rest and sit down lest we rust and decay. Health is maintained only through work. And as it is with all life so it is with science. We are always struggling from the relative to the absolute.

Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated.

Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on.

Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.

Our daughters and sons have burstfrom the marionette showleaving a tangle of stringsand gone into the unlit audience.

To choose is to age." Who said that? Who cares? I pictured myself taking a right, then a left, then a right again.

When fall came and your leaves fell, they would blow away, but you would remain.

The years are long, and full of sharp, wearing days That wear out what we are and what we have been And change us into people we do not know, Living among strangers.

Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs.

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Our present state of self-confidence and poise is the result of what we have "experienced" rather than what we have learned intellectually.