Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Growth

Growth

Ah, mastery ... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills ... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.--Gail Sheehy
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.--Henry Miller ("The Absolute Collective" The Wisdom of the Heart)
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.--Anais Nin
An artist must either give up art or develop.--Pauline Kael
As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.--Robert H. Schuller
Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.--Phillips Brooks
Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.-—Jack Welch
The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.--L. M. Montgomery (Rilla of Ingleside)
Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.--Herbert Otto
Change is inevitable, growth is intentional.--Glenda Cloud
Compassion needs space because love needs a place of unimpeded encounter between grace and nature. In a world crowded by information, we need to find space for the soul to grow.--Ilia Delio (Compassion: Living in the Spirit of St. Francis)
Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth--mental, financial, you name it--Harold S. Geneen
Don't go through life, grow through life.--Eric Butterworth
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.--Robert Louis Stevenson
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.--William Ellery Channing
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.--Goethe
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.--Andy Rooney
Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.--Nikki Giovanni
A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self-confidence.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.--Carl Jung
A finished person is a boring person.--Anna Quindlen (in Writer's Digest)
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.--Edward Abbey (The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West)
Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom bombs. Children will grow from poverty and filth and oppression and develop honor, integrity, contribute to all mankind.--Chester Himes
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.--Pearl S. Buck (To My Daughters With Love)
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.--George Shinn
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.--William Butler Yeats
He not busy being born is busy dying.--Bob Dylan
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?--Buddha
How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.--Robert Brault
The human way of growing is unique; it has no rules, and can occur in many ways.--Marsha Sinetar
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.--Pablo Picasso
I can trust my friends... These people force me to examine myself, encourage me to grow.--Cher
I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.--Carol Burnett
I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.--Clarissa Pinkola Estes
If we are the same as we were last year, we are worse, for the spiritual life was meant to grow.--Thomas G. Morrow (Be Holy: A Catholic's Guide to the Spiritual Life)
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are to really living.--Gail Sheehy
If you are not moving forward, the world is passing you by.--John Maxwell (Sometimes you Win - Sometimes you Learn)
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.--Shirley Hufstedler
If you stop searching, you stop living, because then you're dwelling in the past. If you're not reaching forward to any growth or future, you might as well be dead.--Wynn Bullock
Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long. In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world--Vince Poscente (Invinceable Principles)
It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own emptiness filled up. It is community that calls me beyond the pinched horizons of my own life, my own country, my own race, and gives me the gifts I do not have within me.--Joan Chittister
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.--C. S. Lewis
It was a season that compelled me into a winter wilderness that gave birth to a springtime of new growth that would refill my tank and renew my passion.--Wayne Cordeiro (Leading on Empty: Refilling Your Tank and Renewing Your Passion)
Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will.-Albert Einstein (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.--Karen Kaiser Clark
Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.--Brian Tracy
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.--Francis Bacon
Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.--Mary Ann Brussat
Nothing is lost upon a person who is bent upon growth; nothing is wasted on one who is always preparing for his work and life by keeping eyes, mind, and heart open to nature, men, books, experience. Such a man finds ministries to his education on all sides; everything cooperates with his passion for growth.--Hamilton Mabie
Often we seek to grow or change ourselves by adjusting the external aspects of our lives. ... We all too often forget that permanent or real change only comes when the center of our being, our inner drives ad motivations, undergoes transformation.--Errol Strider
Only ideas keep ideas flowing. When we close our minds to what is new, simply because we decide not to bother with it, we close our minds to our responsibility to ourselves - and to others - to keep on growing.--Joan Chittister (The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully)
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.--Ann Morrow Lindbergh
Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.--George Eliot (Silas Marner)
People don't grow old. When they stop growing, they become old.--Anonymous
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.--J. Michael Straczynski
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.--H. Jackson Brown (?) (Life's Little Instruction Calendar, 1999)
Sometimes when you're in a dark place you think you've been buried, but you've actually been planted.--Christine Caine (on Twitter, Feb. 28, 2016)
The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.--Samuel Smiles (Self-Help)
Step by step is the law of growth. God does not expect the acorn to be a mighty oak before it has become a sapling.--George E. Carpenter
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.--Napoleon Hill
There is always new life trying to emerge in each of us. Too often we ignore the signs of resurrection and cling to part of life that have died for us.--Joan Chittister
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.--Bo Bennett
To be able to look at change as an opportunity to grow--that is the secret to being happy.--Joan Lunden
To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?--Sarah Patton Boyle
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.--Epictetus
We can go confidently into the future and accept the change that growth demands only if we have firm roots in the past, in a living tradition.--Leonard Foley
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.--Max Depree
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.--Anais Nin
We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't.--Frank A. Clark
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true.--Woodrow Wilson
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.--Max De Pree (Leadership is an Art)
We were meant to grow. When we don't grow, we seek diversions--some harmless (if unproductive), others destructive--to fill the emptiness.--Jim Clemmer (Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success)
When you see the value of continued growth, the circumstances around you become stepping stones.--Clyde M. Narrimore
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.--Marie Curie
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.--Ethel Barrymore
You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain and learn to accept it, not as a curse or punishment but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.--Irish Proverb