Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old growth quotes, growth sayings, and growth proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.
Just as plants soak up water, your children need your loving words, and with them they will thrive.Judy Ford
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Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain.unknown
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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.Wayne Dyer
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The time is always right to do what is right.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Please understand my friend, that where you find yourself tomorrow is a function of the positive decisions and actions you take today.Akin A. Awolaja
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The minute you're satisfied with where you are, you aren't there anymore.Tony Gwynn
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They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.Andy Warhol
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Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.James Cash Penney
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Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else?Alex Noble
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Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.Julia Margaret Cameron
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With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.Dr. Wayne W Dyer
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.Winston Churchill
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Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.Tony Robbins
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Today is a new beginning, a chance to turn your failures into achievements & your sorrows into so goods. No room for excuses.Joel Brown
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If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.John C Maxwell
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The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.Socrates
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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.Jean-Paul Sartre
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of other people, but to get ahead of ourselves.Maltbie D. Matlock
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He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.Lao Tzu
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Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.Chinese Proverb
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Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.Tom Barrett
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There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.Ronald Reagan
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Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.Andy Rooney
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Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.Albert Einstein
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.Benjamin Franklin
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Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself.Immanuel Kant
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Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.John Stuart Mill
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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
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Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.Marilyn vos Savant
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The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.Oprah Winfrey
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The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.Oliver Wendell Holmes
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He who moves not forward, goes backward.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.Herbert A. Otto
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When you're finished changing, you're finished.Benjamin Franklin
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Growth begins when we begin to accept our own weakness.Jean Vanier
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.Abraham Lincoln
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You can never solve a problem with the same kind of thinking that created the problem in the first place.Albert Einstein
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Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.Albert Schweitzer
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Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.Ally Carter
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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.Denis Waitley
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed no hope at all.Dale Carnegie
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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.Albert Einstein
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Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.Joshua J. Marine
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Most people never run far enough on the first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.William James
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.Henry Ford
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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.Elizabeth Bowen
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In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.Les Brown
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.Anatole France
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All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.Calvin Coolidge
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All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.Henry Miller
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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
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Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but unlearning old limits.Alan Cohen
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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.Albert Einstein
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.Amelia Earhart
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Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.Babe Ruth
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The tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.Benjamin Mays
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Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Whatever makes you uncomfortable is your biggest opportunity for growth.Bryant McGill
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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
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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
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Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life.Deborah Day
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You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.Diane Von Furstenberg
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit.E.E. Cummings
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There are two ways of spreading light, to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.Edith Wharton
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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
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.Ellen Glasgow
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Don't go through life, grow through life.Eric Butterworth
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If there is no struggle, there is no progress.Frederick Douglass
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It's never too late to become what you might have been.George Eliot
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I learned to always take on things I’d never done before. Growth and comfort do not coexist.Ginni Rometty
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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
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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
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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
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What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.Jane Goodall
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Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.John Maxwell
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The power of imagination makes us infinite.John Muir
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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
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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
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The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.Lao Tzu
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all the time, somehow things will work out in the end.Larry Bird
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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. Les Brown
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.Malala Yousafzai
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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.Maya Angelou
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.Maya Angelou
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We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.Oprah Winfrey
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Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.Paulo Coelho
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.Rick Warren
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People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.Rob Siltanen
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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
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The tiny seed knew that in order to grow, it needed to be dropped in dirt, covered with darkness, and struggle to reach the light.Sandra Kring
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You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.Shonda Rhimes
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Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender, it's holy ground. There's no greater investment. Stephen Covey
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Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don't.Steve Maraboli
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With self-discipline most anything is possible.Theodore Roosevelt
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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.Thomas Edison
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I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.Thomas Jefferson
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.Warren Buffett
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There's only one growth strategy work hard.William Hague
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Follow your honest convictions, and stay strong.William Thackeray
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