Quotes About Growth

Wherever we are and whatever we are doing, it is possible to learn something that can enrich our lives and the lives of others... No one's education is ever complete.

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

You can never get more by saying "No." You can hold a current position by saying "No", but you can only move forward by saying "Yes."

If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.

Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

Nothing can be rushed. It must grow, it should grow of itself, and if the time ever comes for that work, then so much the better!

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

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

Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it.

When you come to the boundaries of what you know, it is time to make some mistakes.

I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum potential.

I guess in all my years, what I heard more than anything else was: a mere town cannot support a discount store for very long.

The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf.

Whatever you are thinking, think bigger.

There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Don't be afraid of new arenas.

You can't be born again, but you can change.

All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.