Quotes About Growth

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

The Very Hungry Caterpillar" story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future

No matter where you are on your journey, that's exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.

I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

As we speed along this endless road to the destination called who we hope to be, I can't help but whine, 'Are we there yet?'.

Part of being human is that we can't go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again we'll do it the right way.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfullfilled potential.

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.

Farming is a profession of hope

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change

Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so must you attend to nourish the garden of your becoming.

Each moment that passes changes you...You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

I know what it's like to not know where you're going or how to get there. I know what it's like to have no one around you who can teach you how to be what you hope to become.

Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

I spend many months in apparently listless rumination out of which I hope something will emerge.

Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

I remain the optimist: you just do your best and hope for the best. But it's an evolving state of mind.

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.