Quotes About Growth

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Life is but a series of misunderstandings.

As long as the centuries continue to unfold, the number of books will grow continually, and one can predict that a time will come when it will be almost as difficult to learn anything from books as from the direct study of the whole universe. It will be almost as convenient to search for some bit of truth concealed in nature as it will be to find it hidden away in an immense multitude of bound volumes.

All these weirdos, and me getting a little better every day right in the midst of them. I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.

It was only when you left it alone that a tree might treat you as a friend. After the blade bit in, you had yourself a war.

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.

The first step toward success will be the biggest one.

You must look within for value, but must look beyond for perspective.

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon.

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

View life as a continuous learning experience.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

Ain't you interested in bettering yourself?" "'Bettering yourself.' Now there's a phrase for you. You think your brother is a better man now than he was when he was hoeing corn?" "He's happier." "That ain't the same thing. He's happy at everybody's else's expense. Progress is always at somebody's expense. Hit means putting everything in order till they's no room to breathe. Progress means cleaning everything up. But I like things dirty.