Growth Quotes

"We are what they grow beyond."

- Yoda

"Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

"Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is the policy for promoting the progress of the arts and the sciences and a flourishing culture in our land."

- Mao Zedong

"Once you plant the seed of intentionality; your life will begin to flourish."

- Lora deVries

""All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”"

- Michael John Bobak

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of "Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this," and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

"A mind that is stretched by new experiences can never go back to its old dimensions."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"The child should always be given the opportunity to interact with the realities of life; the thorns from his roses should never be removed."

- Ellen Key

"Every year I try to grow as a player and not get stuck in a rut. I try to improve my game in every way possible."

- Lionel Messi

""You don’t get older, you get better." — Shirley Bassey"

- Shirley Bassey

"Babies are soft. Anyone looking at them can see the tender, fragile skin and know it for the rose-leaf softness that invites a finger's touch. But when you live with them and love them, you feel the softness going inward, the round-cheeked flesh wobbly as custard, the boneless splay of the tiny hands. Their joints are melted rubber, and even when you kiss them hard, in the passion of loving their existence, your lips sink down and seem never to find bone. Holding them against you, they melt and mold, as though they might at any moment flow back into your body. But from the very start, there is that small streak of steel within each child. That thing that says "I am," and forms the core of personality. In the second year, the bone hardens and the child stands upright, skull wide and solid, a helmet protecting the softness within. And "I am" grows, too. Looking at them, you can almost see it, sturdy as heartwood, glowing through the translucent flesh. The bones of the face emerge at six, and the soul within is fixed at seven. The process of encapsulation goes on, to reach its peak in the glossy shell of adolescence, when all softness then is hidden under the nacreous layers of the multiple new personalities that teenagers try on to guard themselves. In the next years, the hardening spreads from the center, as one finds and fixes the facets of the soul, until "I am" is set, delicate and detailed as an insect in amber."

- Diana Gabaldon

"Every problem is a gift – without problems, we would not grow."

- Anthony Robbins

"Be the change you want to see in this world."

- Gandhi

"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound."

- James Allen

"As you start to walk on the way, the way appears."

- Rumi

"Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential."

- Bruce Lee

"We are either moving forward or moving backward. There is no such thing as standing still."

- Becky Williamson-Martin

"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."

- Terry Pratchett

"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

"answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

"விதைத்துக் கொண்டே இரு.. முளைத்தால் மரம்.. இல்லையேல் உரம்."

"வாழ்க்கையில் கஷ்டம் வருவது உன்னை அழிப்பதற்கு அல்ல.. உன்னில் மறைந்திருக்கும் திறமையை வெளிக்கொண்டு வருவதற்கு."

"Embrace the challenges of Wednesdays as opportunities for growth and learning."

- Unknown

"Embrace the Wednesday journey, for it is in the process that we find meaning and growth."

- Unknown

"The road to success is always under construction. Keep going and keep growing."

- Unknown

"Happy birthday! I’m in awe of how you turn every challenge into an opportunity to grow. May this be your most fulfilling year yet!"

"The trees are about to show us how beautiful it is to let go."

"Like a fine wine, you only get better with age."

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"Good morning. Even on the quietest days, growth is happening within you."

- Unknown