Quotes About Growth
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther. - Zig Ziglar Quote
It doesn't work to leap a twenty-foot chasm in two ten-foot jumps. - Proverb
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. - Abraham Lincoln Quote
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. - Anais Nin Quote
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. - Max De Pree
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can somehow become great. - Mark Twain Quotes
Don't let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy. - Eagles, "Take it Easy"
He who is silent is forgotten; he who does not advance falls back; he who stops is overwhelmed, out distanced, crushed; he who ceases to grow becomes smaller; he who leaves off, gives up; the condition of standing still is the beginning of the end. - Henri Frederic Amiel
You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read. - Charles "Tremedous" Jones
What you become is far more important than what you get. What you get will be influenced by what you become. - Jim Rohn
No one need live a minute longer as he is because the creator endowed us with the ability to change ourselves. - J.C. Penney
The business of expanding your consciousness is not an option. Either you are expandable or you are expendable. - Robert Schuller
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Ronald E. Osborn
If you don't have the courage to change yourself, then nothing will ever change around you. - Unknown
Some people stay away from the door for the chance of it opening up. - Billy Joel, "An Innocent Man"
Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong. - Anne Frank
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anais Nin Quote
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe and enthusiastically act upon... must inevitably come to pass. - Paul J. Meyer
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. - Alan Cohen
Behold the turtle. He only makes progress when he sticks his neck out. - James Bryant Conant
The way to gain a good reputation, is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. - Socrates
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. - Henry Miller
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. - Gail Sheehy
I do the best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference. - Abraham Lincoln
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. - Alice Walker
