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Growth Quotes
1. “What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall
2. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein
3. “Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.” – Carrie Fisher
4. “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.” – Abraham Maslow
5. “The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development.” – Robin Sharma
6. “Don’t go through life, grow through life.” – Eric Butterworth
7. “We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” – Oprah Winfrey
8. “Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are.” – Bernice Johnson Reagon
9. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart
10. “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen
11. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass
12. “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.” – J.K. Rowling
13. “Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” – Maya Angelou
14. “I’ve got a theory that if you give 100% all the time, somehow things will work out in the end.” – Larry Bird
15. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
16. “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
17. “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” – Paulo Coelho
18. “We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.” – Henry Ward Beecher
19. “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” – Ella Fitzgerald
20. “Take criticism seriously, but not personally. If there is truth or merit in the criticism, try to learn from it. Otherwise, let it roll right off you.” – Hillary Clinton
21. “You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.” – Shonda Rhimes
22. “Sometimes in life we take a leap of faith. Remember, the leap is not about getting from one side to the other. It’s simply about taking the leap…and trusting the air, the universal breath, will support your wings so that you may sour.” – Kristi Bowman
23. “Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.” – Deborah Day
24. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” – Steve Maraboli
25. “Be patient with yourself. You are growing stronger every day. The weight of the world will become lighter… and you will begin to shine brighter. Don’t give up.” – Robert Tew
26. “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” – Thomas Edison
27. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
28. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
29. “I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” – Thomas Jefferson
30. “Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.” – William Thackeray
31. “Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.” – Chinese Proverb
32. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg
33. “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
35. “It is never too late to be who you might have been.” – George Eliot
36. “When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.” – Malala Yousafzai
37. “Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit.” – E.E. Cummings
38. “There’s only one growth strategy: work hard.” – William Hague
39. “The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential… these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.” – Confucius
40. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” – Rick Warren
41. “If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.” – Kevin Ngo
42. “The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” – Benjamin Mays
43. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
44. “Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.” – Stephen Covey
45. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
46. “The power of imagination makes us infinite.” – John Muir
47. “When someone tells me ‘no,’ it doesn’t mean I can’t do it, it simply means I can’t do it with them.” – Karen E. Quinones Miller
48. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” – Les Brown
49. “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” – Warren Buffett
50. “With self-discipline most anything is possible.” – Theodore Roosevelt
51. “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
52. “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” – Roy T. Bennett
53. “Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.” – Charles Dickens
54. “If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.” – Steve Maraboli
55. “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?” – John Keats
56. “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.” – Walter Mosley
57. “My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.” – Osip Mandelstam
58. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” – Rick Warren
59. “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.” – Sigmund Freud
60. “Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.” – Heath L. Buckmaster
61. “A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.” – Paul Klee
62. “My destination is no longer a place, rather a new way of seeing.” – Marcel Proust
63. “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
64. “You learn something valuable from all of the significant events and people, but you never touch your true potential until you challenge yourself to go beyond imposed limitations.” – Roy T. Bennett
65. “When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge – every adversity – contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.” – Roy T. Bennett
66. “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” – Edward Abbey
67. “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” – John F. Kennedy
68. “Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.” – Roy T. Bennett
69. “Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney
70. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.” – Benjamin Franklin
71. “What makes night within us may leave stars.” – Victor Hugo
72. “There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.” – Katerina Stoykova Klemer
73. “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.” – Thomas Paine
74. “Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
75. “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
76. “When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say thank you and grow.” – Shauna Niequist
77. “The mind is just like a muscle – the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets and the more it can expand.” – Idowu Koyenikan
78. “Push your boundaries beyond the ordinary; be that “extra” in “extraordinary.” – Roy T. Bennett
79. “Whenever I am in a difficult situation where there seems to be no way out, I think about all the times I have been in such situations and say to myself, “I did it before, so I can do it again.” – Idowu Koyenikan
80. “You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.” – Idowu Koyenikan
81. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.” – Elizabeth Edwards
82. “The writer’s curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.” – Criss Jami
83. “The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.” – L.M. Montgomery
84. “Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins
85. “For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” – Cynthia Occelli
86. “There is nothing more important to true growth than realizing that you are not the voice of the mind – you are the one who hears it.” – Michael A. Singer
87. “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.” – Cherie Carter-Scott
88. “But if you forgive someone for something they did to you, it doesn’t mean you agree with what they did or believe it was right. Forgiving that person means you have chosen not to dwell on the matter anymore; you have moved on with your life.” – Idowu Koyenikan
89. “When you work on something that only has the capacity to make you 5 dollars, it does not matter how much harder you work – the most you will make is 5 dollars.” – Idowu Koyenikan
90. “You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.” – Charlotte Eriksson
91. “We become aware of the void as we fill it.” – Antonio Porchia
92. “I’ve learned that everything happens for a reason,” the yogi Krishnan told him. “Every event has a why and all adversity teaches us a lesson… Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.” – Robin Sharma
93. “Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.” – William James
94. “No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you – whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind.” – Nikki Rowe
95. “Do not think of knocking out another person’s brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.” – Horace Mann
96. “Books… are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with ’em, then we grow out of ’em and leave ’em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.” – Dorothy L. Sayers
97. “Many times in life, we are held back from achieving our goals because we do not commit ourselves wholeheartedly. With an escape route in mind, we hold ourselves back from giving our all.” – Idowu Koyenikan
98. “If a tree’s strength is judged while it is still a seed, it is mistaken as weak.” – Idowu Koyenikan
99. “Rocks in my path? I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle.” – Nemo Nox
100. “Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” – William Jordan
101. “Authentic trust is choosing to trust the person you have chosen to be with, always aware that you both are growing and expanding.” – Shalom Melchizedek
102. “The austerity choice was made long ago by British government that inequality is a price worth paying for growth.” – Fuad Alakbarov
103. “It is only when you are firm in your knowingness that you will be ready to level up and attract someone who you can work in union with to grow beyond your constructs and blocks you may have towards love.” – Victoria L. White
104. “When we feel others’ pain, it triggers empathy. When we help others heal, it triggers self-healing. When we help others grow, it triggers self-growth. When we see everyone – and everything – as connected rather than divided, we lose the feeling of fragmentation and achieve wholeness in mind, body and spirit.” – Jennifer Ritchie Payette
105. “We grow by acknowledging there is an area within ourselves and within our life that can be stronger and re-aligned to our highest good. This acknowledgement requires honesty.” – Victoria L. White
106. “If you are choosing to stay stuck in a relationship where you are no longer growing or the person you are in relation with is no longer growing it is important to make the decision on whether or not to change your pivot.” – Victoria L. White
107. “Letting go is a practice, but the more you experience the joy and peace from being in alignment and remain committed to your growth the more easeful it becomes to remain in alignment.” – Victoria L. White
108. “It takes courage and discipline to take the steps to move forward from a relationship that is restricting your growth. When you stay in a relationship past its expiration date it eventually reaches the point of deterioration and toxicity.” – Victoria L. White
109. “In order to come into alignment with your wholeness you have to dig deeper than any self-defeating thoughts, and thoughts that are anti you, and anti-love, you must be willing to make changes to grow.” – Victoria L. White
110. “I waited for my opportunities, rather than reaching out to them, I avoided battles to avoid failures. I avoided making extra efforts to avoid unforeseen consequences, not knowing that unseen can be favorable too. I was content; I didn’t struggle, and so I didn’t Grow. Growth is all creating opportunities.” – Shahenshah Hafeez Khan
111. “When you are working in union with another, no matter who it is, at that particular time they are a mirror for you to grow. Because the sole purpose of a relationship is to progress in union in relation to one another, the only way that is possible is through constant cultivation and growth.” – Victoria L. White
112. “It’s not enough to just enter into a relationship with a person because you believe or they say that they love you. A person can’t just be in love with you, they have to be in love with your purpose also. And ultimately your purpose is growth.” – Victoria L. White
113. “By letting your employees grow, your company will also grow exponentially.” – Mark Samraj
114. “Life gives every body a second change: It’s called to grow! Some bodies (or buddies) grow up, others, to the side, but we will all fall down, after” – Ana Claudia Antunes
115. “… you can lose more than you thought possible and still grow back, stronger than anyone imagined.” – Alexander Chee
116. “Sometimes the process of growth looks a lot like destruction and pain. But you’ll realize with time that you’re not breaking; you’re healing.” – Brittany Burgunder
117. “Doing something we do not find difficult or challenging rarely grows us.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
118. “True healing, just like all growth, requires being willing to work our edge of discomfort.” – Jessica Moore
119. “I believe that writing, particularly poetry, is a powerful tool for healing and growth.” – Judith Prest
120. “Growing up takes time and effort.” – Charlotte Eriksson
121. “We are often robbed of an opportunity to grow by being helped.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
122. “Every experience you have in this lifetime was meant for you to grow into the person you were meant to become.” – Suzy Kassem
123. “You grow as a person when you realize not everyone has to share your beliefs or concerns.” – Marty Rubin
124. “People and friends come and go as we learn and grow.” – Eric M. Watterson
125. “Sometimes it is good to be in uncomfortable situations because it is in finding our way out of such difficulties that we learn valuable lessons.” – Idowu Koyenikan
126. “Acquiring wisdom is great but it is not the goal, applying it is.” – idowu koyenikan
127. “I see now that the path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being – one of many ways – and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.” – Daniel Keyes
128. “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” – Mandy Hale
129. “Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower… beautiful in essence.” – Tony Samara
130. “Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head, It will get easier, your dreams are not dead.” – Nikki Rowe
131. “A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.” – Criss Jami
132. “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.” – Viktor E. Frankl
133. “A diamond doesn’t start out polished and shining. It once was nothing special, but with enough pressure and time, becomes spectacular. I’m that diamond.” – Solange nicole
134. “The journey I’m taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I’m seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.” – Haruki Murakami
135. “One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular.” – Carl Jung
136. “Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.” – Carl Jung
137. “You only grow when you are alone.” – Paul Newman
138. “The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.” – Joseph Campbell
139. “No matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant when compared to what lies within the core of your being today.” – Sandy Brewer
140. “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Anatole France
141. “You will never be entirely comfortable. This is the truth behind the champion – he is always fighting something. To do otherwise is to settle.” – Julien Smith
142. “Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world.” – Roy T. Bennett
143. “Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.” – Paulo Coelho
144. “By daily dying, I have come to be.” – Theodore Roethke
145. “Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.” – Portia de Rossi
146. “and it is hard to let go, to imagine alternatives, but you are bold with unknowing, you are ready to explore.” – Terra Elan McVoy
147. “The day is ending. It’s time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
148. “No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.” – Adrienne Rich
149. “Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity” – Tony Samara
150. “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia
151. “I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.” – Roger Zelazny
152. “We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.” – H.G. Wells
153. “Don’t let your habits become handcuffs” – Elizabeth Berg
154. “We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.” – Frank A. Clark
155. “It’s much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.” – Criss Jami
156. “Like a wild flower; she spent her days, allowing herself to grow, not many knew of her struggle, but eventually all; knew of her light.” – Nikki Rowe
157. “We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can’t use shame to change ourselves or others.” – Brené Brown
158. “Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.” – Kevin Michel
159. “The First Splendid Truth: To be happy, I need to think about feeling good, feeling bad, and feeling right, in an atmosphere of growth.” – Gretchen Rubin
160. “It is not until you change your identity to match your life blueprint that you will understand why everything in the past never worked.” – Shannon L. Alder
161. “Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.” – T.F. Hodge
162. “Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.” – Alexander Graham Bell
163. “When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person.” – Shannon Alder
164. “It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.” – Henry David Thoreau
165. “An education is not so much about making a living as making a person.” – Tara Westover
166. “No amount of me trying to explain myself was doing any good. I didn’t even know what was going on inside of me, so how could I have explained it to them?” – Sierra D. Waters
167. “We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.” – Tessa Afshar
168. “Strength comes from struggle. When you learn to see your struggles as opportunities to become stronger, better, wiser, then your thinking shifts from “I can’t do this” to “I must do this.” – Toni Sorenson
169. “When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.” – Shannon L. Alder
170. “Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive – my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.” – Jonathan Franzen
171. “Self discovery is the most empowering time of your life, you remember who you are and you become the best version of yourself but what they forget to tell you is, to get to a point of pleasure you must face the pain.” – Nikki Rowe
172. “We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.” – George Eliot
173. “I want to be as idle as I can, so that my soul may have time to grow.” – Elizabeth von Arnim
174. “Your strength will be found when you stop struggling with yourself, instead of thinking everyone is a struggle worth overcoming. Every obstacle in life is a lesson that teaches us, not others.” – Shannon L. Alder
175. “The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.” – Richard M. Nixon
176. “Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate” – Frank Herbert
177. “Sometimes, being true to yourself means changing your mind. Self changes, and you follow.” – Vera Nazarian
178. “Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Mandy Hale
179. “Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.” – Theodore Roosevelt
180. “There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.” – Shannon Alder
181. “Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.” – Sherwood Smith
182. “If you’re capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.” – Criss Jami
183. “Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are”.” – Anne Hines
184. “When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.” – Paul Brunton
185. “Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.” – Swami Vivekananda
186. “Going back after a long time will make you mad, because the people you left behind do not like to think of you changed, will treat you as they always did, accuse you of being indifferent, when you are only different.” – Jeanette Winterson
187. “Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.” – Pastor Jerry L. Lewis
188. “Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.” – Lolly Daskal
189. “We must go on, because we can’t turn back.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
190. “What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew” – Robert Browning
191. “When you’re growing up, it takes a long time for you to realize that there’s something different about you. On one level, you know there’s something strange, but on another, yourself is the only thing you ever knew.” – Brooke Stevens
192. “And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far into the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
193. “Bond is stronger than blood. The family grows stronger by bond.” – Itohan Eghide
194. “It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere.” – John Updike
195. “People who have had little self-reflection live life in a huge reality blind-spot.” – Bryant McGill
196. “The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man’s interpretation of his life and struggles.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
197. “Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.” – Bernard Berenson
198. “Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.” – Charlotte Mason
199. “Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.” – Suzy Kassem
200. “If experience is the best teacher, there’s nothing that comes close to the experience of life.” – Michael A. Singer
201. “One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.” – Edward T. Hall
202. “In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth in the Holy Spirit.” – Brennan Manning
203. “If I can’t stay where I am, and I can’t, then I will put all that I can into the going.” – Jeanette Winterson
204. “I always wondered if they’d change you.” – Kiera Cass,
205. “The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.” – Lalah Delia
206. “It changes you for ever, but you are changing for ever anyway.” – Margaret Mahy
207. “Diversity of character is due to the unequal time given to values. Only through each other will we see the importance of the qualities we lack and our unfinished soul’s potential.” – Shannon L. Alder
208. “We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we don’t know about and don’t understand. There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.” – David Attenborough
209. “Growth is betrayal.” – John Updike
210. “A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.” – Marcel Proust
211. “The cost of growth is always a small act of violence.” – Jodi Picoult
212. “Whatever your calling, it’s already rooted within you, and those roots can be trampled or tugged at but never removed. They grow stronger only when tended, nurtured, and most important, shared with others.” – Oprah Winfrey
213. “Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.” – Vera Nazarian
214. “Sometimes we have to soak ourselves in the tears and fears of the past to water our future gardens.” – Suzy Kassem
215. “To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.” – Ho Chi Minh
216. “Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.” – Paul Brunton
217. “The journey itself is going to change you, so you don’t have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.” – Daniel Quinn
218. “Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth… It has no day.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
219. “Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of others.” – Juan Gabriel Vásquez
220. “Bravery is the choice to show up and listen to another person, be it a loved one or perceived foe, even when it is uncomfortable, painful, or the last thing you want to do.” – Alaric Hutchinson
221. “Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.” – Hugo Hamilton
222. “Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.” – Alfred North Whitehead
223. “It is one thing to lose people you love. It is another to lose yourself. That is a greater loss.” – Donna Goddard
224. “Pain doesn’t last. And when it’s gone, we have something to show for it. Growth.” – Kamal Ravikant
225. “Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.” – André Gide
226. “Regardless of whether a relationship brings us joy or sorrow, each relationship gives us the opportunity to grow stronger, nobler, and more compassionate with ourselves and others.” – Tamela Rich
227. “Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.” – Roy Bennett
228. “Sanity is not about confrontation. It’s about filtering. Having a stable and happy life is about saying “no” to crazy people, not about inviting them in and then hoping that confrontations are going to make them sane.” – Stefan Molyneux
230. “I’m never proud of my old work. I always feel as though my skills have since improved.” – Criss Jami
231. “Scars prove that you’re still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving.” – Ash Parsons
232. “Give your all to every experience, feel it breathe it appreciate it, nothing lasts forever, when it’s gone you’ll remember the feeling it once gave you and sometimes that’s enough.” – Nikki Rowe
233. “I have gotten where I am today by refusing to stay where I was. Change is something I have done over and over again.” – Danielle Bernock
234. “And we are made different. On the instant. What we know, what we were, is banished by that instant, razed like a castle under siege, and nothing is recognizable is left. The world is unmade.” – Jennifer Roberson
235. “One of the advantages to getting older, though: while you might not change all that much, you at least got to know yourself. The real you, minus the bullshit and wishful thinking.” – Edward W. Robertson
236. “Don’t allow the pride, ego and insecurities of others stunt your growth.” – Yvonne Pierre
237. “There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth.” – John Crowley
238. “Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.” – Joanna Russ
239. “Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.” – Widad Akrawi
240. “The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won’t happen if you compromise away the entire process.” – Yvon Chouinard
241. “Success works as a cycle – growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing – all while you’re encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.” – Julien Smith
242. “Do your thoughts continue and repeat a cycle Seed, growth, bloom, and seed again” – Richard L. Ratliff
243. “there is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
244. “The striving of humanity for knowledge and truth [can] not be suppressed. The growth of the spirit [is]an essential part of Creation; it was planned like the growth of the body, of the plants and animals and people – every living thing that God had created.” – Peter Prange
245. “Feeding the mind with possibility and avoiding negativity is crucial for mind growth.” – Olawale Daniel
246. “Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.” – Mary E. DeMuth
247. “The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.” – William Harvey
248. “Patience, more than the ability to bear pains or endure waiting, is to be calm no matter what happens – constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities – and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting.” – Roy T. Bennett
249. “What you do with your time daily is essential for spiritual and physical growth” – Sunday Adelaja
250. “Growth is a part of change.” – Toba Beta
Even in the midst of grief, there is growth, compassion, and love to be unearthed. Loss buries us underground, but our broken hearts hold the seeds for our inevitable regrowth. Your grief belongs to you. But so, too, does your coming back.” – Shelby Forsythia
251. “Though it may be better for [children] to read some things, especially fairy-stories, that are beyond their measure rather than short of it. Their books like their clothes should allow for growth, and their books at any rate should encourage it.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
252. “In order to grow, you have to let go of all that you are and all that you know.” – Maureen Muldoon
253. “Sensuality is a container for your desires, growth and transformation.” – Lebo Grand
254. “God cares about you and the talents you struggle to develop. He understands how enjoyable it is to use and enhance your talents. Yes, your growth and happiness are important to God.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
255. “Humans are growth oriented. When we are not learning, we are not growing, and when we are not growing, we are stagnating.” – Ari Gunzburg
256. “Change is automatic, but Growth is intentional.” – Izey Victoria Odiase
257. “When there is peace, there is growth.” – Ojingiri Hannah
258. “We are naturally attracted to comfort, yet, on the other hand, it discourages our growth. Come up with a plan to have sensible balance between the two.” – Christine E. Szymanski
259. “Growth means crossing the level of stability, growth means finding the way of serial progress.” – Momenul Ahmad
260. “When cries turn into sobs, a child grows.” – Mantaranjot Mangat
261. “With every animal species that fades to extinction, one more opportunity is lost from the realm of human growth and possibility.” – Laurence Overmire
262. “Character means everything that is human about you… Character means a sense of community – character means a desire for learning and growth – character means the guts to admit and mend one’s own errors and shortcomings – character means the yearning for assimilation.” – Abhijit Naskar
263. “With gratitude, everything grows” – Osho
264. “Stagnant water never achieves anything, it neither quenches someone’s thirst nor does it help grow a plant, it only breeds disease.” – Abhijit Naskar
265. “Human is not a species – human is a promise – a promise to never stop growing – a promise to never stop learning from our mistakes – a promise to acknowledge our shortcomings and sharpen our strengths.” – Abhijit Naskar
266. “Change is constantly going on, that those who resist change, will be changed.” – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
267. “That’s how life is. Change. Things change. People change. Situations change. Everything changes. Nothing stays the same – ever.” – Temi O’Sola
268. “Bloom, it is your right.” – Temi O’Sola
269. “Fly, if you are tired of walking.” – Temi O’Sola
270. “Not being you is risky way of becoming.” – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
271. “Challenges contain the seeds of our glory” – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
272. “To experience our divinity, we pay the price of life.” – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
273. “There are established facts, and there are facts yet to be established.” – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
274. “Like the roots stay forever with trees, help them grow and make them strong, will you stay with me just a bit long(er)?” – Sijdah Hussain
275. “Each tree grows in two directions at once, into the darkness and out into the light with as many branches and roots as it needs to embody its wild desires.” – John O’Donohue
276. “Bealtaine, the time of adolescent growth, where what was planted in the spring was given sustenance to grow. Where, just as plants, our souls are enriched with Light so that we may reach skyward toward heaven.” – L.B. Ó Ceallaigh
277. “Emotions without actions is just a thought. Reflections with actions is change.” – VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis
278. “Let the imagination transform your own life challenges into an epic story journey.” – Alicia P. Zubot
279. “Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.” – Debby Boone
280. “One’s world shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s sensual growth.” – Lebo Grand
281. “If you want to grow your company, grow your people. If you want to grow your people, grow yourself. It starts with you. Always.” – David Taylor-Klaus
282. “Keep your eyes and heart open. Do the work to create conditions where the magic can unfold. Your growth is about belief, choice, and action.” – David Taylor-Klaus
283. “I think it’s better to know that you don’t know, that way you can grow with the mystery as the mystery grows in you. But, these days, of course, everybody knows everything, that’s why so many people are so lost.” – James Baldwin
284. “In order to grow, you first must tell yourself the truth.” – Jason Cain
285. “In order to expect change, we must first change ourselves.” – Yuri van der Sluis
286. “Only survival and ambition makes one confront their own fears.” – Yuri van der Sluis
287. “Practicing what you preach is a lot more difficult than preaching what you practice.” – Yuri van der Sluis
288. “Talk about trouble and live troubled, talk about dreams and live passionately.” – Yuri van der Sluis
289. “Life without obstacles removes opportunity for growth.” – Chad E. Foster
290. “If you’re not getting outside of your comfort zone, then you’re not growing” – Chad E. Foster
291. “Aim for something higher than yourself. Plants grow toward the sun. Humans grow toward their goals.” – Maxime Lagacé
292. “Your life experiences serve an important role in your evolution. They’re an opportunity for growth and a chance to return back to love – your natural state.” – Melissa Ambrosini
293. “… there are no mistakes, just opportunities for evolution. Choose to see every “mistake” or “failure” as an opportunity for growth.” – Melissa Ambrosini
294. “Success is like a rose. Water it with the dew of preparation and watch it as it grows” – A.H. Scott
295. “If you believe, you are the reason behind someone’s growth, remember you cannot grow even a single hair in or on someone’s head, said by Growth” – P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
296. “Who am I to judge? We are all building our own worlds, growing our abilities, and forming relationships. How else do people learn but by experience and practice?” – Donna Goddard
297. “The place where all important things happen is silent and solitary. It is seldom spoken of. It is momentous, yet, almost imperceptible.” – Donna Goddard
298. “It has to be like this… Growth is always painful actually it has to be, so that we will be able to learn or else everyone would have forgotten how they have achieved something. It’s the only thing which remind us what it takes to achieve our goals and never look back.” – Dr. Bhawna Sokta
299. “Growth of life makes struggles big and strong” – Munia Khan
300. “Failure is not failure unless we fail to learn from it.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
301. “I’ve made a ton of mistakes that never turned into failures because I learned from them before they got that far.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
302. “Without hesitation, I can tell you that it wasn’t the ability to get it right that got me here. Rather, it was the ability to learn every time that I got it wrong.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
303. “Never having made a mistake is a success that is always inferior to having made a mistake and having learned from it.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
304. “Failure holds the information that unleashes the opportunity that is standing at our doorstep.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
305. “Remember, laying on the ground looking up grants us an invaluable perspective that will dramatically enhance what everything will look like when we’re back on our feet.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
306. “Recovering from depression is like grass growing. In other words, it takes time. You may not be able to see grass growing, but the important thing is that it is.” – Olivia Sagan
307. “Growth isn’t always comfortable, sometimes it requires you to make changes you never thought of.” – Hopal Green
308. “To facilitate your growth you have to be eager to learn new things.” – Hopal Green
309. “It’s better to change and adapt, than to complain and remain.” – Rob Liano
310. “Every problem you face is an opportunity to learn something. The biggest lessons in your life have been learned from the darkest days.” – Tracy A. Malone
311. “You need to depend on yourself to make yourself happy. Depending on others to make you happy will not end well.” – Tracy A. Malone
312. “Actions really are louder than words, judge everyone by their ability to be as good as her/his word. Give a second chance once.” – Tracy A. Malone
313. “Be cautious not to let the negativity of people projecting their own self-doubts and insecurities on you to distract you from your goals.” – Princess Dr. Mercy Uwakwe
314. “Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become.” – Suzy Kassem
315. “Change is not always a bad thing: it sometimes takes the form of progress. And is not always a good thing: it sometimes takes the form of regress.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
316. “Fear, uncertainty, and discomfort are your compasses toward growth.” – Celestine Chua
317. “True growth is moving away from the ego.” – Robert Celner
318. “It is in the defeat that we find the ingredients for the next success.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
319. “Change is an anxiety-arousing business because whenever you make a change, you can’t make only one. There is no guarantee where it will stop.” – Harriet Lerner
320. “Learning is finding. Finding is losing something else.” – Harriet Lerner
321. “How do measure your growth? By how much you help.” – Meir Ezra
322. “Growth starts with the decision to help” – Meir Ezra
323. “When we express our gratitude, it grows.” – Richie Norton
324. “If I don’t learn how to think, then I don’t think I’ll ever learn.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
325. “Don’t be the person everyone is saying you were, Be the person your loved ones are praying for you to be.” – Shriya Pujari
326. “I think that we should be less focused on the crisis and more focused on what we can learn from the crisis. For the biggest crisis of all is the crisis of repeating the crisis.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
327. “If we get better, our customers will demand we get bigger.” – S. Truett Cathy
328. “If what you did 5 years ago still greatly excites you, you probably aren’t growing.” – John C. Maxwell
329. “The fact that crisis and pain produce growth and discipline is central in every winner’s life philosophy. This invariably differentiates them from losers and quitters.” – Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
330. “I have not stopped growing. I am still breathing.” – Abiodun Fijabi
331. “If others work for you, give your own time only to those who are willing to learn and grow.” – John C. Maxwell
332. “Growth has spiritual and organic aspects; the spiritual part has to do with maturity, knowledge, wisdom, perspective and attitude adjustment. While the organic part accounts for increase, expansion, multiplication, and addition of the territory we have.” – Dr. Lucas D. Shallua
333. “It’s always smart to learn from your past mistakes, if you don’t learn, you won’t grow and you will end up losing every time.” – Shriya Pujari
334. “Not every man knows what he shall sing at the end” – Mark Strand
335. “Everything begins small.” – Suzy Kassem
336. “What wills to grow will grow. What wills to flow will flow.” – Donna Goddard
337. “Such exponential growth does not occur in the natural world, except maybe for cancer – and that growth ceases once the host has been consumed.” – Douglas Rushkoff
338. “You don’t have to be born into a family of fifty to be successful. You can be one in a million all by yourself.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
339. “The human cannot be ignored or ostracized – it will always win. It must be trained by a higher wisdom and a growing spiritual power.” – Donna Goddard
340. “Hanging around the small minded eventually makes us small minded. The plant only grows as big as the environment it’s in.” – Torron-Lee Dewar
341. “Be yourself but don’t remain the same because you deserve growth.” – Lidia Longorio
342. “Emotional baggage is like the dead skin of a snake. If you don’t shed it, how can you grow emotionally?” – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
343. “When you chased me away, my body did go, but my heart stayed behind.” – Temi O’Sola
344. “People need to feel seen, heard, and valued to have the desire to grow.” – Marcia Reynolds
345. “Supporting each other’s growth will never stop yours.” – Abraham Schneersohn
346. “The right to say no was a right he ought to exercise if he wanted his yes to mean something.” – Alex Beecroft
347. “Mental turmoil, anxiety, depression, and suffering are results of unconscious prevention of evolution that has to occur in one’s life and on the planet.” – Divneet Kaur Lall
348. “Want lasting success? Focus on these two characteristics: Self-Honesty & Self-Discipline.” – Charles F Glassman
349. “To ‘live’ and to ‘grow’ are synonymous with each. For one without the other doesn’t mean that we’re dead, but it certainly means that we’re not living. And truth be told, I don’t know that there’s a whole lot of space between the two.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
350. “I only plant seeds, it’s up to you to nurture them and let them grow.” – Harken Headers
351. “High school never ends’ is said by those who peak in high school and die in anonymity. We have to grow out of high school.” – Revan Badingham III
352. “A life of comfort does not appeal to the artist. It seems meaningless to live a life of luxury. Growth happens in adversity. An artist must go deep to create art. To lead a life of meaning and purpose, the artist must lead a life of struggle.” – Avijeet Das
353. “Growth happens in adversity. When you come out of your comfort zone, you tend to discover new facets to your creativity and talent. Troubles don’t always break you; they make you too.” – Avijeet Das
354. “We’re all operating on borrowed time and borrowed money. We need to make a choice.” – Douglas Rushkoff
355. “On the other hand, positive thinking and positive emotions “broaden and build” our resources and skills, and open us up to possibilities of growth and development.” – Abhishek Ratna
356. “If I have not challenged you to something better, I have doomed you to something worse.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
357. “Learn from the past, don’t relive it. Growth and success will occur now and in the future.” – Charles F. Glassman
358. “Let go of what doesn’t serve you so you can begin to truly serve yourself.” – Timi Nadela
359. “At a stage in my life where I am slowly learning to enjoy my own company. Keeping my circle small and stop entertaining unnecessary things that can’t grow my mind.” – Hopal Green
360. “Take note. Sometimes growth means not being able to recognize the person you once were.” – Charles F. Glassman
361. “Move even if it’s with fear, you aren’t meant to stay here.” – Lidia Longorio
362. “Make your weaknesses your strengths, that’s how you grow.” – Lidia Longorio
363. “The future that you aspire to will only come if you’re willing to let go of what you need to release in your life today.” – Dave Hollis
364. “It is possible to get out of your own wat, but it requires deliberate attention and careful coordination of many moving parts.” – Dave Hollis
365. “Like a wise serpent shedding her skin, you are called to release whatever is no longer authentic or doesn’t serve your highest good. You are not the same person you were ten or even five years ago. Acknowledge your growth and movement.” – Elizabeth Eiler
366. “Focus on making the people around you better and you’ll grow in the process to be a great leader.” – Jawo
367. “allow yourself to grow” – Dahi Tamara Koch
368. “It’s been said that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And that may be true. However, if I want to grow and be stretched in the journey, I won’t be looking for the straight line.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
369. “In my experience, God reaches us and nourishes us in different ways during seasons we are tempted to call ‘ugly.’ And the most beautiful growth often sprouts from those seasons we don’t prefer.” – Nicole Zasowski
370. “The religion of growth won the imagination of the people and it became the universal religion for the last few years.” – Anand Damani
371. “The day we run out of questions, will be the day we run out of life.” – Abhijit Naskar
372. “When the facts become clear, our choices become obvious.” – Gregg Braden
373. “We discover our greatness when we find ourselves in a situation bigger than we are and we manage to grow and become bigger than the situation.” – Luigina Sgarro
374. “The older we grow, the more humane, the more loving and wiser we become!” – Md. Ziaul Haque
375. “Patience is staying focused at your wanting, keeping an attitude to never give up, accepting the situations and enjoying the emotions, knowing your higher intent. Patience is the key to exponential growth.” – Anand Patwa
376. “Forgiving others is something we give ourselves every day.” – Donna Goddard
377. “The real crisis in any crisis is not the crisis itself. Rather, it is having missed the opportunities within the crisis.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
378. “Dealing with your rage and grief will give you life. That is both the good news and the bad news: The solution is at hand. Wherever the great dilemma exists is where the great growth is, too.” – Anne Lamott
379. “A life of growth means a life of exhilarating discomfort.” – Dave Hollis
380. “If you want a meaningful life, you must create situations that make you uncomfortable.” – Dave Hollis
381. “Doing something wrong doesn’t make you wrong at your core; it makes you human.” – Dave Hollis
382. “You never lose when you fail; you only learn from the experience.” – Dave Hollis
383. “When we release our fear of the unknown and our preconceived notions, we free our hearts to find true friends, to love, and to grow.” – Michelle Porter
384. “Continue to grow and consolidate core businesses.” – Ashwin Muthiah
385. “Learning how to become better communicators and better listeners will help us enter this new age of the experience economy and walk, talk and grow with civility as our foundation.” – Cindy Ann Peterson
386. “Businesses built on societal trust are the key to sustainable and responsible growth.” – Ashwin Muthiah
387. “As a tool for offsetting the drag on growth caused by population aging, a modest amount of additional immigration is the best bet.” – Dietrich Vollrath
388. “If you want growth, just have the viewpoint that you are going to bring about growth.” – Meir Ezra
389. “How do you measure your growth? By how much you help. Growth starts with the decision to help.” – Meir Ezra
390. “Seedlings of life sometimes come out of the fertiliser of what was left behind.” – Gillian Duce
391. “To become better, you have to admit your ignorance – at least to yourself.” – William A. Pasmore
392. “Pain is the paper within which the greatest growth is wrapped; despite the fact that this kind of paper can come in the worst of colors.” – Craig D Lounsbrough
393. “Death is the alpha and omega of destiny. It can excite its flames or stifle them out. How it affects your destiny depends on you. Can you endure it and grow? Or will you let it destroy you?” – Imania Margria
394. “It takes courage to grow up and work hard to become who you really are.” – Positively sherry
395. “Moving chemical products to more downstream, to avoid commoditization and keep growth and values high, is more and more not working. Since innovation in this field is a big challenge and the fast growing countries have a limited interest in specialities, businesses need to find other ways to keep margins on a high level.” – Pedro Ahlers
396. “Growing is a patient thing, lad,” Daniel explained. “You must give all living things time to adjust to their new surroundings, their new soil, then time to grow, as well.” – Cathy Gohlke
397. “To become an advanced consultant, you can’t simply do more of the same; you need to deepen your knowledge while seeking feedback that allows you to grow as an individual.” – William A. Pasmore
398. “Trust yourself, no other formula works better.” – Supriya ‘Deep’
399. “Instead of waiting to be rescued, start creating opportunities for yourself. You owe yourself everything you expect from others.” – Nicky Verd
400. “It is often a result of growth not to be known by someone who once knew you.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
401. “Growth is first of all for a leader’s benefits before others shares the benefits. The best gift a leader can give to those he has been called to lead is the evidence of his own growth.” – Benjamin Suulola
402. “Make friends with people who aren’t your age, hang out with people whose first language isn’t the same as yours. Get to know someone who doesn’t come from your social class. This is how you see the world. This is how you grow” – Dido Stargaze
403. “Healthy relationships at the soul level are the foundation for earthly contentment, spiritual growth, and evolution of the soul.” – Nozer Kanga
404. “No leader is too old to grow. When a leader becomes too old to grow then he’s no longer qualified to lead.” – Benjamin Suulola
405. “Successful leadership is a commitment to the journey of tireless growth.” – Benjamin Suulola
406. “Common Sense” without growth, curiosity, or perspective eventually becomes conservatism and bitterness.” – Lindy West
407. “We had stepped into the river that takes you forward.” – Ann Patchett
408. “If you wish to grow in spirit, feed on the spiritual food, the HOLY WORD.” – Lailah Gifty Akita
409. “A fortune can’t be made from a single coin in the same way a forest can be grown from a single seed.” – VKBoy
410. “Pain is necessary for growth.” – Ezinne Orjiako
411. “A true growth culture is safe for people to take risks and make mistakes. In other words, to learn.” – Britt Andreatta
412. “A great tree grows from two soft leaves To spread its shade afar.” – Edwin Arnold
413. “the soil here is harsh Unwelcoming and half the things I love do not grow.” – Sreya Bremtin
414. “Mentoring is a critical part of personal growth and development and affords a lifetime of opportunity to grow and develop.” – Lisa Fain
415. “Everything human is evolving. Always. This includes our hearts and desires, as well as our bodies.” – Richard Paul Evans
416. “If you can’t handle my sensuality, then you don’t deserve any other thing that emanates from my soul.” – Lebo Grand
417. “The tree doesn’t move and yet its reach stretches all across the globe. The tree stands at one place but its seeds travel far and wide and take a strong hold wherever the condition is amicable for their growth. That is the power of imagination we have!” – Sanchita Pandey
418. “Determination, devotion and deliberation are the fundamental pillars of societal growth.” – Abhijit Naskar
419. “Personal development is the vehicle through which success and economic growth travel” – Nicky Verd
420. “In order to grow, we need to know ourselves. To understand what triggers certain behaviour, we need to identify the root cause.” – Adiela Akoo
421. “I am a product of the flames which burnt me; the anvil which forged me; and the will that made me grow formidable instead of breaking.” – Jeff Mach
422. “You’re growing like a rumor, aren’t you?” – Stacey Lee
423. “… the soreness of growth is so much less expensive than the devastating costs of regret.” – Robin Sharma
424. “In the dark of the moon there is growth. Plants do not flourish in the noonday sun, but rather in the privacy of the new moon” – Terry Tempest Williams
425. “It’s your purpose that keeps you grounded and growing throughout your process.” – Melissa Steginus
426. “Staying rooted in your purpose, the reason you started in the first place, helps you get through the tough days and appreciate the good ones. It also ensures that you’re growing toward what really matters to you.” – Melissa Steginus
427. “Reflection goes hand-in-hand with assessment and leads to long-lasting growth and change (in combination with action, of course).” – Melissa Steginus
428. “We squander our souls by giving them over to what makes them feel good rather than surrendering them to what makes them grow strong.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
429. “It doesn’t matter if you are a flower or a weed, in the end life is all but about growing up.” – Gagandeep Reehal
430. “It takes the lessons to grow. It takes the growth to pass the tests.” – Emilyann Allen
431. “Remember, you can’t do all the work. Be content to help a patient realize what must be done and then trust his or her own desire for growth and change.” – Irvin D. Yalom
432. “I’m a firm believer that my “story”, is in a persistent state of growth and maturity.” – Carlos Wallace
433. “Trying is an art even when you try and fail every time you get up and keep going. When you stop dreaming and fight for what you want and what is necessary that’s when the real change and growth begins.” – Keah Brown
434. “You must always know your roots if you are to know how sturdy the tree will grow.” – Zoraida Córdova
435. “Learn and grow every day.” – Rupal Asodaria
436. “Great writing is about packing a single thought into a handful of words so that your life can be enlarged by a boatload of growth. And if what you’re reading isn’t doing that for you, it’s just scribbling.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
437. “Relying on current successes to drive future growth is preparing for bitter disappointment!” – Daren Martin
438. “While it may yet be a seed, no matter how small water, nurture and feed it. If it’s worth dreaming of then it can be grown.” – Kelechi Erondu
439. “We need to cultivate the courage to be uncomfortable and to teach the people around us how to accept discomfort as a part of growth.” – Brené Brown
440. “School is the place we all have to go. There is potential. School is about the future. Looking forward to something, progression, growing, maturing. It’s supposed to be safe here, but is has become the opposite. It feels like a prison.” – Iain Reid
441. “Always know the shape you take – know it so well you can shift it to your purpose, so well the form gives way to formlessness again. What is a grain but a seed? And from a seed, you can grow anything. Like, say, a family.” – Max Gladstone
442. “My greatest strengths are my weaknesses, for it is through acknowledging them that I learn how to grow.” – Iain Cameron Williams
443. “Every problem comes with hidden opportunity to grow.” – Rupal Asodaria
444. “To think how different ones life would be had one moment not altered it all – just don’t sit there too long or you’ll self sabotage all your growth.” – Nikki Rowe
445. “You didn’t grow past the old things, just enclosed them like rings in a tree, so someone feeling the bark of you could suss out your old scars.” – Max Gladstone
446. “Confidence grows when you know what you want, when you don’t have to be told who you are. You know it on the inside so you don’t have to force it on the outside. It just radiates. and your steps become effortless.” – Katie Kacvinsky
447. “To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.” – Eric Hoffer
448. “A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.” – Eric Hoffer
449. “Growth and evolution is a choice that everybody has, but it’s only rare few that choose it.” – Jennifer Pierre
450. “We shrink ourselves to fit into places we’ve outgrown. Then we find ways to anesthetize the pain and discomfort. Stop spiritually and emotionally starving yourself. Let go. Move on. Grow.” – Steve Maraboli
451. “Honest investigation can result only in growth.” – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
452. “without our memories, growth and formation simply wander into oblivion” – Casey Tygrett
453. “Any process of change requires a form of dying” – Casey Tygrett
454. “Change alone doesn’t bring growth but you cannot have growth without change.” – John C. Maxwell
455. “I used to discourage walls around our hearts, but as i grow i am soon realising, walls are a good thing – It keeps out all those not willing to climb the extra mile and you know what, it’s a real shortcut to cutting out alot of bullshit.” – Nikki rowe
456. “She is growing By burning the bridges and Lighting the candles” – Jyoti Patel
457. “Evolution in our careers is one of the most important things to learn and apply simultaneously as we earn. Without that, there is no door for growth.” – Goitsemang Mvula
458. “Through heart-ache and head-aches comes much value. Without the trials of life, we cannot grow within ourselves to understand the concept of life.” – Jose R. Coronado
459. “The idea that one evaluation can measure you forever is what creates the urgency for those with the fixed mindset. That’s why they must succeed perfectly and immediately. Who can afford the luxury of trying to grow when everything is on the line right now?” – Carol S. Dweck
460. “When you choose to have limits, you limit yourself for growth, knowledge and experience.” – James D. Wilson
461. “There comes a point where it all becomes too much and you cannot take the pain anymore, that’s where the growth takes place, that’s where you transform.” – Sai Pradeep
462. “If we are willing to learn from the lessons that life teaches us then we may begin to realise that growth happens from chaos!” – Avijeet Das
463. “Sometimes we may feel disheartened and demoralized but we must keep faith in ourselves. We may be going through a lot of ups and downs in our life. But we must realise that growth begins from chaos!” – Avijeet Das
464. “Growth begins from chaos!” – Avijeet Das
465. “For many people it is almost a sin to be happy and content in this world because they believe that contentment hampers growth.” – Awdhesh Singh
466. “The color white is a blank canvas, just waiting to be written on. Compared to other more stimulating colors it is a refreshing change, a soothing and calm visual experience for the mind, which allows for imagination growth and creativity.” – Chantal Larocque
467. “Your growth is only intimidating to those who don’t want to grow.” – Jeanette Coron
468. “We should respect other people’s decisions, even if they seem bad ones to us. Perhaps, we are wrong. Perhaps, we are not wrong but the decision is necessary for the person’s growth.” – Donna Goddard
469. “There is no fear in letting tears come. Sadness is a gift to avoid the nothingness of numbness, and all the hard places need water. Grief is a gift, and after a rain of tears, there is always more of you than before. Rain always brings growth.” – Ann Voskamp
470. “Some of the best ideas come from the darkness.” – Trevor Carss
471. “Man’s growth is held back by his surrender to other people’s expectation that he remain the person he was when they met him.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
472. “Growth is often the parent or the child of pain.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
473. “So I start now to move on, not forgetting, but taking the memories with me in my heart and in ink. The leaf has fallen and it’s time for a new one to grow before I let my lie live me to death.” – Dana Hewitt
474. “Challenges come unannounced and uninvited. They often catch us by surprise. They may even take our breath away and cause confusion. But they can also help us develop perseverance, determination, courage, optimism, trust, and faith; none of which will grow without some serious obstacles.” – Alis Cerrahyan
475. “So make those mistakes, and start over again. It’s by fumbling and repetitive that real growth and accomplishment happens.” – Samantha Dion Baker
476. “Remember the only evidence of time is life and growth.” – Khalid Masood
477. “Embrace the importance of curiosity. Certainty is the opposite of growth. Don’t live life as if you have everything figured out. Read, be curious, and always be open to change – because after all, where has your current thought process gotten you?” – Kathleen Trotter
478. “Growing up means changing what we know so that we might finally come to know how much there is that we can really change.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
479. “Solitude is mental growth” – Allison Mierop
480. “If we love Jesus, we’ll love truth, and we’ll want to grow.” – Jaquelle Crowe
481. “Like branches in a tree, we all grow in different directions, yet our roots remain as one.” – Suzy Kassem
482. “Seek to build relationships that are in alignment with your dreams. Relationships that’ll challenge and inspire you to grow” – Nicky Verd
483. “Difficulty’s potential to grow us is not confined to working out.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
484. “If we can learn to ride life’s waves while staying present with its constant ebb and flow, we will continue to grow and create more balance in our lives.” – Regina M Powers
485. “When we forgive, especially under the most difficult circumstances, we grow and evolve as people.” – Cathy Burnham Martin
486. “You can’t hold on to the past and expect to grow as a human being.” – Marty Rubin
487. “In the spring you smell last fall’s death and this year’s growth as the elder lichen shows the young how to grow.” – Tanya Tagaq
488. “They say heartbreak is a blessing. It helps you grow and turns you into a better, more powerful person. You become as strong as a beast.” – Priyanka Agarwal
489. “The degree of our intellectual growth is inversely proportional to the number of people with whom we are still close friends.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
490. “Growth is about moving forward while chaos often sends you repeatedly through the same cycles.” – Victoria L. White
491. “The next level of your growth will demand a deeper version of you; but depth is a sensual process.” – Lebo Grand
492. “Learning to eat, greet, learn and lead are indispensable for growth and impact.” – Kelechi Erondu
493. “To grow in tolerance is the only real progress for an individual or a nation.” – Marty Rubin
494. “With every belief we discard, with every need we outgrow, we grow stronger.” – Marty Rubin
495. “It’s more like she has grown too big and feels trapped in her own skin.” – Rachel Hartman
496. “The three most common killers of friendships are betrayal, distance, and growth.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
497. “You don’t have to apologize for growing and learning and changing your mind.” – Tori Amos
498. “Instead of waiting to start big, start small so that you can grow big” – Nicky Verd
499. “You can’t buy happiness, so why not grow your own? All you need is a piece of fertile ground (your beautiful mind) plus some hardy seeds of wisdom, creativity, and plain good sense.” – Oprah Winfrey
500. “Growth doesn’t happen because we’ve accumulated some number of years. Growth happens when we learn. We mature when we are able to triumph over yesterday’s mistakes. Whatever success we have today is because we dared to fail and learned from it.” – Nesta Jojoe Erskine
