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
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
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
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
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 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
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 don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are to really living.--Gail Sheehy
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
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.--Karen Kaiser Clark
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 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)
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
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 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