Growth Quotes

It doesn't matter what you achieve, if you don't keep growing you'll feel dead.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

The single biggest way to impact an organization is to focus on leadership development. There is almost no limit to the potential of an organization that recruits good people, raises them up as leaders and continually develops them.

We're not happy unless we feel like we're growing.

All too often, the security of a mediocre present is more comfortable than the adventure of trying to be more in the future.

Growth is often a painful process.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes bothbetter... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.

If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self.

Because,' Cormery went on, 'when I was very young, very foolish, and very much alone ... you paid attention to me and, without seeming to, you opened for me the door to everything I love in the world.

Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.

Prepare for the difficult while it is still easy. Deal with the big while it is still small. Difficult undertakings have always started with what easy. Great undertakings always started with what is small. Therefore the sage never strives for the great,And thereby the great is achieved.

Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy.

Just because the road ahead is long, is no reason to slow down. Just because there is much work to be done, is no reason to get discouraged. It is a reason to get started, to grow, to find new ways, to reach within yourself and discover strength, commitment, and determination. The road ahead is long and difficult, but it’s filled with opportunity. Start what needs starting. Finish what needs finishing. Get on the road. Stay on the road. Don’t give up.

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet

I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths.

I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.

America is the only place where man is full-grown!

Your environment will become you. Surround yourself with people who have the same dream as you, who have accomplished what you want & more.

Consistency is the bugbear that frightens little minds.

You have to know who you are to grow to your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

I think I know that I deserve better. And so I try for better. I'm never so put off that I would ever walk out of a place not having tried the best I could.

I built my talents on the shoulders of someone else's talent.

Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.

Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream.

If a human being dreams a great dream, dares to love somebody; if a human being dares to be Martin King, or Mahatma Gandhi, or Mother Theresa, or Malcolm X; if a human being dares to be bigger than the condition into which she or he was born-it means so can you. And so you can try to stretch, stretch, stretch yourself so you can internalize, 'Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto. I am a human being, nothing human can be alien to me.' That's one thing I'm learning.

To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery.

Where you start in the marketplace is not where you have to stay.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Contentment with life is not a feeling, but it is a decision we must make. Contentment does not mean that we never want to see change or improvement, but it does mean we can be happy where we are and will do the best we can with what we have. It also means we will maintain an attitude that allows us to enjoy the gift of life.

There are no failures, only outcomes. As long as I learn something, I am succeeding.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

Transforma as tuas feridas em sabedoria!

And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one.

I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.

Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new opportunity. It doesn't approach an object with prejudice or preconception, but handles each thing dispassionately before embracing it and, if necessary, finds advantage in what opposes it. It is like fire in this regard. Whereas a feeble flame might suffocate under a pile of dry sticks, a robust fire consumes everything it touches. The more objects of any kind heaped on it, the higher it rises, the hotter it burns.

Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

My goal is always, how do you get better?

You have to 'be'' before you can 'do', and do before you can 'have'.

Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

You don't become an effective leader by default.

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.