Quotes About Growth

A clear understanding of how much I don't know about medicine is one of my greatest strengths

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well worth remembering from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow.

Whatever happened yesterday was the past.

The came of the instinctive heaven Is attained through experience and sweat.

The Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam, said: Whosoever expands his knowledge without a parallel increase in his piety will only have grown in his separation from Allah.

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted desires, a broken friendship, or a new friendship— when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God's will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.