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Growth Quotes
"What defines you isn't how many times you crash but the number of times you get back."
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"If you will be deep enough to concentrate and study or rehearse anything, the world will bow in honor to you."
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"I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart." 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it."
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"Possibly the apparent relapse they had suffered was not a fall and a cause for suffering, but a leap forward and a positive act."
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"As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day."
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"True change is within, leave the outside as it is."
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"Work is an instrument through which you build yourself."
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"You must first become " before you are appointed, conferred or pronounced. Unfortunate challenges and failures are likely to be manifested whenever conferment precedes becoming what you aim to be. Be ready to maturely handle success."
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"Confidence is not a goal or a final ending point where you arrive and then stop once you reach it. Rather, it is the satisfaction and reward you achieve by stretching to, and beyond, the best of your abilities."
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"Everyone of us has a new name that winks at us daily because there are rivers of life in our bellies, we just need our mentors to help us to give birth to those new names."
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"The sense of your own experience will grow along with your confidence."
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"Embrace challenges as opportunities for growth; they are stepping stones to a brighter future."
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"Knowledge is the seed, intelligence is the stem, understanding is the branch, and wisdom is the fruit."
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"Think your best thoughts every moment, every day. You will be the best person on the way."
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"I grew up once, I decided never to do it again."
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"Only the one who invests in people can be prosperous and successful."
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"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
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"Even at 80, I shall say that I am yet to start, for that shall give me the real reason never ever to look back and see what I have done but to look ahead and see the marvelous things I shall be able to do and the distinctive footprints I shall be able live and leave with the very seconds that shall be ahead of me! Life must never be over until all is over!"
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"This year has taught me the simple craft of belief. I believe in the things I've nurtured and built this year. Slowly but carefully. Such as understanding, knowledge, passion, strength; the hundreds of songs I've written, the 365 poems, the books I've read and the miles I've run. The resolution to breathe, to meditate, to not harm my mind or body even when I've felt like it."
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"Looking at Prim's face, it's hard to imagine she's the same frail little girl I left behind on reapimg day nine months ago. The combination of that ordeal and all that has followed - the cruelty in the district, the parade of sick and wounded that she often treates herself now if my mother's hands are too full - these things have aged her years. She's grown quite a bit, too; we're practically the same height now, but that isn't what makes her seem so much older."
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"The only difference between you and the person you admire is their perspective on life."
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"She was tough in the best sense of the word. She'd taken blows, the disappointments, and had worked her way through them. Some people, he knew, would have buckled under, found a clutch, or given up. But she had carved a place for herself and made it work."
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"Our world is filled with people who have only a shallow knowledge of certain skills and have remained like that for so many years without self-improvement."
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"Great wildernesses lead you to great Promised Lands."
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"Personal growth doesn't occur without effort. The effort is one of recognizing your own power, and taking ownership and responsibility for your own development."
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"Everything has its opposite within it.Love can be very destructive if you mishandle it.Pain can help you find ways to grow and change.Fear can eventually lead you to a path of hope."
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"Stop focusing on how miserable you are and focus on how many opportunities you have to get better."
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"I don't want you to hate me or even to not like me, but I am committed to helping you think and grow and succeed."
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"From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At that age you don't look for what is hidden. It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity."
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"I changed for the better when I quit expecting others to."
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"You cannot walk in a great man's shoes without getting sores on your feet."
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"He hadn't asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right."
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"One may suffer the long-term in order to grow in appreciation for the small things. For in short-term suffering, one only notices the large."
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"Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough."
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"The soul's steps are greater than the heart's leaps."
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"I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today."
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"Ernest Hemingway was a champion of the common man. He once said, "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self."
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"It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man."
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"You already beat yourself up for enough things that aren't your fault. People who care don't want to add to that." He paused, and then added gently, "But you assumed it was about you." I finished the beer and sighed. "Arrogance," I said."I feel stupid." "Good," Michael said. "It's good for everyone to feel that way sometimes. It helps remind you how much you still have to learn."
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"And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils and never draw another thing. Then it was embroidery with her, she had to learn it, and she'd make the most beautiful thing, fussing at herself for the least little mistake, then throw down the needles and be done with that forevermore. I never saw a child so changeable. It was as though she was looking for something to which she could give herself, and she never found it. Least ways not while she was a little girl."
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