Quotes About Growth

Whenever you squander attention on something that doesn't put your brain through its paces and stimulate change, your mind stagnates a little and life feels dull.

Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life. As Hobbs put it, the secret of fulfillment is "to choose trouble for oneself in the direction of what one would like to become.

Living the focused life is not about trying to feel happy all the time…rather, it's about treating your mind as you would a private garden and being as careful as possible about what you introduce and allow to grow there.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

I think I'm learning to be bolder in my career choices and be more confident in my personal life. I haven't always felt very secure as an individual, but now I feel I certain confidence and sense of self that gets me through the day a lot better than before.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to have changed often.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

change. Ideas change.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

We know ourselves only as far as we've been tested.

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

Spoonfeeding in the long run teaches you nothing but the shape of the spoon .

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.