Growth Quotes

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."

"The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement."

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths."

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."

"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."

"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."

"Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."

"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."

"It is your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself, that determines how your life's story will develop."

"What you do today can improve all your tomorrows."

"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you do not belong."

"Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results."

"Progress, not perfection."

"You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

"Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds."

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

"The struggle you are in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow."

"The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation."

"The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun."

"It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works."

"The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public."

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false."

"Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that."

"I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt."

"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years."

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."

"A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder."

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."

"To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

"Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress."

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

"Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies."

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."

"In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable."

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."

"What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."

"Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better."

"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."

"In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?"

"We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else."