Quotes About Growth

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

You always want to be better than you are. No matter what, I think that's important.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Pressure makes diamonds

Every wall is a door.

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.

The area where we struggle the most is often the area of our greatest effectiveness

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Good parents give their children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been taught them.

Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

It is necessary to reteach a thing its loveliness, to put a hand on its brow of the flower and retell it in words and in touch it is lovely until it flowers again from within, of self-blessing.

Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.