Quotes About Growth

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.

Every situation has changed me as a person.

I am very far from practicing what I understand.

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

What we are here to do is to meet and become the person we are.

Try a little harder to be a little better.

But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Growing is a lifetime job, and we grow most when we're down in the valleys, where the fertilizer is.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

Self-creation never ends. You are continually creating yourself from the field of infinite possibilities. You are, in every moment, born again. And so is everyone else.

Dreams come a couple sizes too big so you can grow into them.

Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

The Christian is bred by the Word, and he must be fed by it.