Quotes About Growth

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Don't be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

Short sentences drawn from long experience.

Experience, the universal Mother of Sciences.

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be.

Miremos más que somos padres de nuestro porvenir que no hijos de nuestro pasado

El amor precede al conocimiento, y éste mata a aquél.

I cannot imagine how anyone can go through life without carrying the memories of his childhood on the surface of his soul.

E o segredo da vida humana, o segredo universal, o segredo raiz do qual todos os outros segredos surgem, é o desejo de mais vida, o desejo furioso e insaciável de ser tudo o mais sem nunca deixar de ser nós mesmos, de tomar posse de todo universo sem deixar que o universo se apodere de nós e nos absorva; é o desejo de ser outra pessoa sem deixar de ser eu mesmo, e continuar sendo eu mesmo ao mesmo tempo que sou outra pessoa.

Los niños lo comprenden todo; más que nosotros. Y no olvidan nada. Y si ahora no lo comprenden, lo comprenderán mañana.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

Los hombres se hacen, las montañas están hechas ya

I could speak Spanish fluently growing up, but I'm so out of practice, and I have such a tremendous respect for songwriting in the Spanish language.

It's exhilarating to come closer and closer to self-discipline.

A person who has achieved control over psychic energy and has invested it in consciously chosen goals cannot help but grow into a more complex being. By stretching skills, by reaching toward higher challenges, such a person becomes an increasingly extraordinary individual.

Adolescents who never learn to control their consciousness grow up to be adults without a "discipline." They lack the complex skills that will help them survive in a competitive, information-intensive environment. And what is even more important, they never learn how to enjoy living. They do not acquire the habit of finding challenges that bring out hidden potentials for growth.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead.

Almost every situation we encounter in life presents possibilities for growth...But these transformations require that a person be prepared to perceive unexpected opportunities.