Growth Quotes

Robert Tew

What you deny or ignore, you delay, What you accept and face, you conquer.

Rob Liano

If we all desire love and acceptance, shouldn't we love and accept all others?

Charlotte Eriksson

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.. Charlotte Eriksson
Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop.

Bryant McGill

Work to become whole enough to love and to be loved.

Tim Fargo

Good advice is not often served in our favorite flavor.

Natasa Pantovic Nuit

Every child is an individual with a different growth rate & a varied and vast potential. Respecting the talent that is hidden within each child, we respect their potential to become Kings of their Trade, or Saviors of the World to come.

Walter Mosley

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.

John Keats

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Sandy Brewer

No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Happiness gives you the freedom to enhance your ability to achieve success. Your choices in life are a direct reflection of your level of happiness. It's the sunshine for your soul that you need in order to grow

Mollie Marti

With every choice you create the life you’ll live; with every decision you design it.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you
The larvae you see today would grow into a large butterfly tomorrow. Size is what you see now, allow the clock to tick, then check on the size again.

Jenim Dibie

Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.

C. JoyBell C.

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized
I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the
The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.

Tom Althouse

Is it a weakness not being able to hate? Or is it preparation for what is inevitable, the ability only to love.

Tom Althouse

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

Tom Althouse

To win or lose often depends on set parameters. Expand the bounds of what is possible, and you may come out the true winner, outside the confines of its defining.

Tom Althouse

More and more obstacles seem to be other people's issues that form in the way of a hand to block one, to take notice of them? Sometimes noticing ahead of time, and taking the time to notice them, makes the hand part of an arm that embraces you. The obstacles become bridges for both to cross over, even if in opposite directions.

George Eliot

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our
We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

Bryant McGill

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

Lolly Daskal

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

Lolly Daskal

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

Lolly Daskal

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

Elizabeth Edwards

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

Nikki Rowe

To heal our world we must be silent; willing to listen to the roars of the wounded. We must teach eachother how to feel, only than can an entire nation grow in peace, as the war within will slowly diminish.

Terry Pratchett

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Bryant McGill

Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us. If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy. This makes self-love is the perfect soil from which to grow love.

Paul Pitchford

Summer is a period of luxurious growth. To be in harmony with the atmosphere of summer, awaken early in the morning and reach to the sun for nourishment to flourish as the gardens do. Work, play, travel, be joyful, and grow into selfless service. The bounty of the outside world enters and enlivens us.

Swami Dhyan Giten

When we have developed a trust in both our inner man and woman and they can nourish, support, communicate and cooperate with each other, a love begins to flow between them.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

Be a Person. Not a Resumé.

Bryant McGill

The truth can do years of work in seconds.

Sachin Kumar Puli

You start getting satisfied you stop getting better.

Daniela I. Norris

What I like about this belief is that it makes people look for a big picture, and think more about how they behave in this life and what they achieve, as it might influence their next lives. I also
like another aspect of it: that negative experiences teach us as much as positive experiences do; sometimes they teach us more.

Ashok Kallarakkal

Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.

H. L. Balcomb

One's past can't be erased, it can only be learned from, the child taught her.

Aniruddha Sastikar

The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.

Richelle E. Goodrich

Life isn't a lazy cruise on some endless, calm, and temperate sea. Life is a raging ocean with swells and tidal waves that wreck and sink your boat. Life is a series of storms―overcast skies, fierce winds, and pelting rain. You were meant to be immersed in it all―first to float, then swim, and eventually to walk on water.

Sachin Kumar Puli

Finding the reason to live doesn't put you on top, it's the hardships faced in process that get you there.

C.S. Lewis

The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes. They cannot sound otherwise to those who have not had the relevant experience: that is why there is no real teaching of such truths possible and every generation starts from scratch.

Nikki Rowe

the problem with the world, is, far too many people drain their energy into what is wrong with their life; instead of holding gratitude for what's right in their life.

Rob Liano

Until people learn to love others more than they love to hate others, not much will change in this world.

Charles Dickens

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

Anaïs Nin

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

Heath L. Buckmaster

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.

Daphne Du Maurier

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

Marcel Proust

My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.. Marcel Proust
My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.

Portia De Rossi

Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.

Charlotte Eriksson

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.

C. JoyBell C.

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.

Rick Warren

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

C. JoyBell C.

I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.

Wil Wheaton

Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.

Anthony Robbins

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

Elizabeth Berg

Don't let your habits become handcuffs

Julien Smith

You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion - he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.

Gretchen Rubin

The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.

Carl Sagan

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge. Carl Sagan
Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Peter Prange

The striving of humanity for knowledge and truth [can] not be suppressed. The growth of the spirit [is]an essential part of Creation; it was planned like the growth of the body, of the plants and animals and people - every living thing that God had created.

Nikki Rowe

I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people and I look back now
I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow.

Kemi Sogunle

Without living, there will be no learning. Without learning, there will be no growth. Without growth, there will be no change. The only way you learn is by trying. You may make mistakes but you have to remember that doing so will lead to change. Be willing to learn from experiences, grow and live to become better not bitter.

William Jordan

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Don't you notice that there are particular moments when you are naturally inspired to introspection? Work with them gently, for these are the moments when you can go through a powerful experience, and your whole worldview can change quickly.

Paul Brunton

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

Brandi L. Bates

In order to grow, I promise you'll have to let go of some habits. 10 times out of 10, they'll be the habits you're most in love with.

Deepak Chopra

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself.

Mary E. DeMuth

Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.

Mollie Marti

Your greatest responsibility is to live a life that nourishes your highest truth.

Mollie Marti

Mastery is the breeding ground of fresh, creative passion.

Mollie Marti

There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.

Nikki Rowe

I find pain, rather beautiful.
It has a chaotic way of shaking up
Everything we once ignored,
To empower us to move past
Anything that doesn't serve the best of us anymore.

Nikki Rowe

The pathway to peace is an in describable journey of facing ones darkness, to find ones light. If they told you it's easier to give up, you met a fool; if they told you; it's easier to grow, you met the wise.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Your choices are the reason you are who you are today. When you look back, maybe thinking you shouldn't have done a particular thing, don't stay there. Live for this very moment. After all, this moment is what really matters, your past has come and gone. Move on,

Andy Rooney

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.

Ayn Rand

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want-you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.

Edmond Mbiaka

Whatever thought or belief that cannot produce happiness or growth in your life, doesn't belong in your mind.

Charlotte Eriksson

When someone's success makes you as happy as if it were your own, you know you've found someone worth holding on to.

Theodore Roethke

By daily dying, I have come to be.

William R. Inge

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.

Nikki Rowe

The details of my thoughts bled into thin pieces of paper, spread across miles to touch hearts of the people; who've lost their truest homes- themselves.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that ‘other’ is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.

Chris Burkmenn

Greatness comes from the inside and once you believe you have it, it's yours to share with the world.

Phyllis Wheaton

You can curse the moon
Curse the day your’re born
But the pilot of your plane is you
We’re all in this world, by a greater plan
Look up, lift your wings, Because you can
The Light Said (The First Song album)

Jenim Dibie

The things you let go will someday teach you how to fly.

Ash Parsons

Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.

Rob Liano

Hope floats but effort propels.

Osip Mandelstam

My turn shall also come:
I sense the spreading of a wing.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went.

Charlotte Eriksson

Some people make you want to be a better person, and that, for me, is the purest form of love.

Horace Mann

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.

Nikki Rowe

Tomorrow when you wake up, be aware of how you dress your thoughts and emotions, because at the end of the day no matter what you look like, if your inner being isn't beautiful, neither are you.

Charlotte M. Mason

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.

Hồ Chí Minh

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Dionysius Cato

Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago" [Without learning, life is but the image of death]

Rob Liano

You must embrace change before change erases you.

Sabrina Newby

Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing", said the Butterfly.

David Waweru

Small but growing is better than big and stuck.

Nikki Rowe

Somewhere along the journey i lost myself; i learnt to be who they told me to be, i lived that girl for decades until their truth showed me; the words they were preaching didnt match the the steps they were walking, so i was done with their opinion and went on my unique way.

Ram Mohan

Self motivation is essential for individual growth.

Charles F. Glassman

Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort.

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