Quotes About Growth

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Encourage creative disruption: Random hostilities are not what the organization needs, but if nobody's pissed off, maybe you're not pushing hard enough. "Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

I read a book one day and my whole life was changed.

Somewhere along the road many of us have picked up the belief that to change we must suffer. Some things are earned with work. But work is not suffering. Work is just work.

Most spiritual practises have been developed - and, in the past, were sustained - in community. But most of us do not live in community. Although my students and friends and I share many of these practices, we are only occasionally in proximity to one another. Doing a daily practice alone is difficult. It requires not so much a heroic discipline as a deep commitment to life, a willingness to dedicate our lives to something larger than ourselves.

What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.

We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage, true success follows every right step.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon our soul.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

The greatest thing a man can possibly do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. It is not a question of what someone else can do or become which every youth should ask himself, but what can I do? How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?