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Quotes About Growth

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Age is no guarantee of maturity.
~ Lawana Blackwell
The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
~ John Dewey
Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.
~ Kurt von Schleicher
The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
~ Horace Bushnell
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.
~ Frank Warren
If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.
~ David Ogilvy
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes
~ Fritz Kunkel
Sweet are the uses of adversity
~ William Shakespeare
If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
~ Confucius
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
~ Jim Rohn
Perfection is not a destination; it's a never-ending process...Enjoy!
~ Jim Bouchard
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
~ Tom Clancy
Just do the best with what you have, and you'll soon be doing it better.
~ Gil Hodges
A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good, we must give of that which we have.
~ Margaret Becker
You don't overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.
~ John C. Maxwell
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
~ Patti Smith
The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.
~ Art Spander
The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.
~ Andrew Harvey
Every child has the capacity to be everything.
~ Doris Lessing
It is better to know how to learn than to know.
~ Dr. Seuss
Don't be concerned that things appear to be falling apart: this has to happen in order for something new and wonderful to emerge.
~ Marianne Williamson
Instead of me having a breakdown, I'm focusing on me having a breakthrough.
~ Terrell Owens