Growth Quotes

"From a little girl so very small, how and when did you get so tall?"

- Karen Mortensen

"The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life the stronger the daughter."

- Anita Diamant

"I love my mother as trees love water and sunshine. She helps me grow, prosper, and reach great heights."

- Terri Guillemets

"As they get older, our daughters become more and more like us too."

- Amy Newmark

"The more a daughter knows the details of her mother’s life … the stronger the daughter."

- Anita Diamant

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind."

- Marcel Proust

"I’m continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you’re uncomfortable, it means you’re growing."

- Ashton Kutcher

"All things grow with time, except grief."

- Jewish Proverb

"“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”"

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"Adopting an older child is a journey, a developing relationship, and a wonder to behold!"

- Karlene Edgemon

"True friendship is a plant of slow growth…"

- George Washington

"What I realize now in hindsight is that there is a natural ebb and flow to friendships. There are times you think there's nothing left between you, that you've hit the bottom, but the special ones survive, find ways of restoring themselves."

- Colette McBeth

"As an artist, you want to stretch. That’s the only way you’re going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I’ve done before, then I’m never going to get better as an actress."

- Jurnee Smollett

"You can either grow or degenerate. Either of these is happening all around you, all the time. There is nothing called a ‘safe comfort zone’. This is a convenient name depicting the process of degeneration."

- Manoj Arora

"We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young."

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"So, old friends, now it’s time to start growing up, taking charge, seeing things as they are, facing facts, not escaping them, still with dreams, just reshaping them, growing up."

- Stephen Sondheim

"Tears water our growth."

- William Shakespeare

"I’m as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes."

- Afrika Bambaataa

"Ten years have passed since a perfect blue sky morning turned into the blackest of nights. Since then we’ve lived in sunshine and in shadow, and although we can never unsee what happened here, we can also see that children who lost their parents have grown into young adults, grandchildren have been born and good works and public service have taken root to honor those we loved and lost."

- Michael Bloomberg

"I always want to give more than I gave yesterday."

- Allyson Felix

"The more I train, the more I realize that it's not about the medals. It's about the journey and the person I become."

- Allyson Felix

"Some friendships just get better with time."

- Jim Howard

"We grow, we change, but friendship always fits."

- John Peterson

"Sometimes what’s left behind can grow better than the generation before."

- Simba

"Every day in every way, you are getting stronger."

"Embrace the journey, not the destination."

"Everything you are going through is preparing you for what you asked for."

"Keep going, keep growing"

"Big journeys begin with small steps"

"Mistakes are proof that you are trying."