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Growth Quotes


"To cultivate bravery and courage, change your attitude toward failure. Many successful people will tell you that if you aren't failing, you aren't trying-that failure is an essential precursor to achieving worthwhile endeavors. Failing (no matter how hard) is one of life's best teachers for winning the next time."


"Sometimes you fail, sometimes you fly."


"Be humble as you learn, confident as you teach, and modest when you have mastered both."


"The future belongs to those who enhance their level of consciousness and awareness everyday."


"Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along--the same person that I am today. I never felt that I spoke childishly. I never felt that my emotions and desires were somehow less real than adult emotions and desires. And in writing _Ender's Game_, I forced the audience to experience the lives of these children from that perspective--the perspective in which their feelings and decisions are just as real and important as any adult's. ... _Ender's Game_ asserts the personhood of children, and those who are used to thinking of children in another way ... are going to find _Ender's Game_ a very unpleasant place to live."


"Some birds learn how to fly only after falling off of a cliff."



"Everybody must be focused on cultivating their own land of promise."


"You don't know all that you can be unless you've tried all there is to try. None of us get to do that in this life, so hence the saying, there's always room for improvement."


"As we travel to new places we gain new perspectives and renew our thinking."



"Only through the conversion of time can greatness be bought."


"Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath."


"The matured understands mistakes as a necessary growth path to maturity."


"Change anything about your life that cannot be accepted. Accept everything about your life that cannot be changed and move on with your big dreams!"


"If the grass is greener on the other side, try planting better seeds."


"A seed only begins to manifest its greatest potential the day it is buried in dirt."


"There are two things that turn a boy into a man, the size of his dick and the level of his patience."


"A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves."



"It is at the time of spiritual wilderness experience that the devil begins to remind us about the past."


"No one can go back and correct his mistakes, but everyone can go forward and change their thoughts and perceptions."



"Miracles should run after you and not you running after miracles."


"You were born to unlock your consciousness and be universal and infinite."


"Raging winds and clashing seasshould not keep you from victory. Stormy winds and raging seasgive birth to great destinies."



"If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it."



"To Be Raised Without An Earthly Father Is Never An Excuse Not To Discover Purpose."


"When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial - as the real artists of life do."



"I hope you know that you've given me the courage to change. I hope you know that who you are is who you choose to be, and that whispers behind your back don't define you. You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for."


"The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction. This is how we are refined by our pain. When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again. The storm gives us the gift of our defining choices. You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection. People who stay perfect and unblemished never really get to live fully or deeply. You will not be the same after the storms of life; you will be stronger, wiser and more alive than ever before!"


"Don't keep running the race of life with the same heavy load of mistakes and indecisiveness! You may grow weary and weary! Mistakes lead to discovery, but not all the time! Mind your mind, and for a moment, realize where you have reach, and drop your loads!"


"The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up."


"Your uniqueness is your trademark."


"You must first forgive yourself in order to forgive others."


"All too soon the garden of childhood is paved cold with the asphalt roads of adulthood. And while it is not within her power to halt this unrelenting progression, a mother can diligently guard this most precious garden and insure that the roads become gentle paths that wind through it instead of byways that kill it."



"Hard work is one of the greatest principles which I have carefully guided my life by."



"There is indeed no limitation in life to anybody's height of greatness. The only limitation that we all have is the limitation that we create for ourselves."


"A lion is born knowing how to hunt, but has to learn how to hunt well."
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