Growth Quotes

"My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing."

- Marcel Proust

"Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn't like that, for anybody; you can't fall in love with a standard, you have to fall in love with a person. You can't live in a criteria, you have to live your life. You can't wait for your plans to materialize, because they may never materialize the way you think they will. You can't wait to watch your ideals and standards walk up to you, because you can't know what's yours until you have it. I always say, always take the first chance in case you never get a second one, but growing up takes that even one step further, growing up means that you have to hold on to what you have, when you have it, because what you have- that's yours- and all the ideals and criteria you have set in your head, those aren't yours, because those haven't happened to you."

- C. JoyBell C.

"I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end."

- Daphne du Maurier

"Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?"

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Just because something works doesn’t mean it can’t be improved."

- Ramonda

"Affirmations are like seeds planted in soil. Poor soil, poor growth. Rich soil, abundant growth. The more you choose to think thoughts that make you feel good, the quicker the affirmations work."

- Louise Hay

"Little boys should never be sent to bed. They always wake up a day older."

- J.M. Barrie

"Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind. Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us."

- Marcel Proust

"Dreams come in a size too big so that we may grow into them."

- Josie Bisse

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone."

- Johnny Cash

"A life spent making mistakes is more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Every experience, good or bad, is a stepping stone to something greater."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Pain makes you stronger. Fear makes you braver. Heartbreak makes you wiser."

- Drake

"He always planted at a new moon and picked when the moon was full. He had a lunar chart in his greenhouse, each day marked in a dozen different inks; brown for potatoes, yellow for parsnips, orange for carrots. Watering too was done to an astrological schedule, as was the pruning and positioning of trees. And the garden thrived on this eccentric treatment, growing strong, luxuriant rows of cabbages and turnips, carrots which were sweet and succulent and mysteriously free of slugs, trees whose branches fairly touched the ground under the weight of apples, pears, plums, cherries. Brightly colored Oriental-looking signs taped to tree branches supposedly kept the birds from eating the fruit. Astrological symbols- painstakingly constructed from pieces of broken pottery and colored glass set into the gravel path- lined the garden beds."

- Joanne Harris

"It's funny. I remember I used to have this mentality where I'd be at the Grammys or at the MTV Awards, sitting at my seat, saying,'Oh, God, I hope they cancel my performance, or maybe the stage will break and I won't have to do this tonight—I'm nervous.' Like, on tour, I'd say, 'I hope something happens where they have to clear the building, and we'll get one night off.' This was early on, around the first album. But now I'm just like, 'Man, I hope they give me five extra minutes.'"

- Drake

"Let January be the month where we evolve into something greater."

"Embrace the transition January brings—it’s a sign of growth and progress."

"A mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

"I see all situations as an opportunity to learn and grow."

"We have to do things that are outside of our comfort zone in order to grow."

"Smooth Seas do Not Make Skillful Sailors"

"Every challenge makes us stronger."

"Every loss is a step towards improvement."

"Failures pave the way to success."

"Turn every loss into a stepping stone."

"Loss reminds us that there’s always room to improve."

"Use this time to grow mentally and physically."

"This challenge will make you a better player."

"From little seeds grow mighty trees"

- Unknown

"Rock bottoms will teach you lessons that mountains never will"