423 quotes
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of living. One must also leave behind the self that one has begun to outgrow.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
— Bertrand Hamilton
“If you trade speed for clarity at key decisions, progress becomes visible.”
— DuckyHeals
“It is no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
— Lewis Carroll
“Momentum returns quickly when you measure progress weekly instead of guessing.”
“The seed of God is in us if the seed had a good wise and industrious cultivator it would thrive all the more and grow up to God”
— Meister Eckhart
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
— Jack Canfield
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
— Confucius
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
— James Baldwin
“To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
— Samuel Johnson
“Leaders multiply talent by giving people room to grow.”
— Anonymous
“Do one thing every day that scares you”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
— Rumi
“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time.”
— Epictetus
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
— Socrates
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is not daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away the unessential.”
— Unknown
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.”
— Jim Rohn
“Effort does not betray.”
— Kim Yuna
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
— Aeschylus
“If you schedule deep work like a non-negotiable meeting, execution becomes cleaner.”
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
— Seneca
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
“Working is growing”
— Karl Marx
“What we pay attention to grows so what are you attending to”
— adrienne maree brown
“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
— Henri Bergson
“When you think everything is someone elses fault you will suffer a lot”
— Dalai Lama
“Learning never exhausts the mind”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“It is more difficult to want to know myself than not to know myself.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Men learn while they teach.”
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.”
— Francis de Sales
“I am still learning.”
— Michelangelo
“Just because you are CEO do not think you have landed the job is not about the corner office”
— Indra Nooyi
“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
“Nothing can be gained without pain.”
— Aristotle
“I consider knowing myself to be the most important.”
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
— Lao Tzu
“Momentum returns quickly when you ship drafts and improve in public.”
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“If you improve one repeatable process each day, opportunities start to multiply.”
“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
— John C. Maxwell
“Momentum returns quickly when you raise the quality of your inputs.”
“Everything is figureoutable.”
— Marie Forleo
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
— Abraham Maslow
“Thought without study is vain.”
“If you prepare when the pressure is low, results become repeatable.”
“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest”
— Pema Chodron
“Learn silence with the learned speak with the ignorant in silence we grow”
— Pythagoras
“Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not.”
— John Maxwell
“Man must transcend himself.”
— Nietzsche
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.”
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
— Ram Dass
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
— Og Mandino
“Man perfects himself through study.”
— Kant
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars”
— Kahlil Gibran
“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
“Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.”
— Horace
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
— Albert Einstein
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
— George Eliot
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”
“Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“Even at this moment, you are growing.”
“A person grows according to how they understand themselves.”
— Carl Rogers
“The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.”
— Joanna Macy
“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving natures laws wrong it learned to walk without having feet”
— Tupac Shakur
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor Frankl
“Momentum returns quickly when you choose consistency over intensity.”
“The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction.”
“Solitude is not a private therapeutic place but the place of conversion”
— Henri Nouwen
“What you resist not only persists but will grow in size”
— Carl Jung
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”
— Maya Angelou
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“Challenges make me stronger.”
“I always did something I was a little not ready to do I think that is how you grow”
— Marissa Mayer
“If you turn plans into calendar blocks, confidence becomes earned.”
“When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.”
“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning.”
— Book of Proverbs
“Becoming is better than being”
— Carol Dweck
“Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man”
— Heraclitus
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you build feedback loops into your workflow.”
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
— Jordan Peterson
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“Momentum returns quickly when you do the obvious work others keep delaying.”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
“People become what they think about.”
— Maurice Maeterlinck
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. Creativity is that courage made visible.”
— E.E. Cummings
“Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into through daily practice and devotion”
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
— Wayne Dyer
“He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.”
“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”
— Seneca the Younger
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday not to who someone else is today”
“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”
— Fred Rogers
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
“If you build systems that survive low motivation, execution becomes cleaner.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you simplify your plan until it is executable.”
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
— George Washington
“You were not born to shrink down to less but to blossom into more of who you really are”
— Sonya Renee Taylor
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
— Steve Maraboli
“Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.”
— George Iles
“I am not destroying myself, I am creating myself.”
“Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
— Khalil Gibran
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
— Zig Ziglar
“All of us who do creative work get into it because we have good taste”
— Ira Glass
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
“In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
“Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.”
— Mandy Hale
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better stronger richer quicker or smarter”
— Miyamoto Musashi
“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”
— Euripides
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you ever get polished?”
“The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.”
— Robin Sharma
“He who moves not forward goes backward.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
“Iron sharpens iron; scholar sharpens scholar.”
“Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity and we can build it it is not fixed”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait and wait without anxiety.”
— Gabby Bernstein
“My dad encouraged us to fail growing up he would ask us what we failed at that week”
— Sara Blakely
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security and healing requires the same”
— Iyanla Vanzant
“The process creates more value than the result.”
“The world is a great book, of which those who never stir from home read only a page.”
“The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
— John F. Kennedy
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
“I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it”
— Pablo Picasso
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do”
— Tim Ferriss
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“No mud, no lotus.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
— Paulo Coelho
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
— Gail Sheehy
“Momentum returns quickly when you focus on completion before optimization.”
“The battles that count are not the ones for gold medals the struggles within yourself are the ones that matter”
— Jesse Owens
“If you protect recovery so your effort is sustainable, opportunities start to multiply.”
“If you treat time as an investment, not a container, confidence becomes earned.”
“Today's regret can become tomorrow's resolution.”
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
— Neale Donald Walsch
“Learning is open to everyone.”
— Plato
“Challenges make me grow.”
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”
“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance.”
“When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.”
“Small daily wins become the story people call overnight success.”
“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.”
— Brene Brown
“When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.”
— Tal Ben-Shahar
“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.”
— Mortimer Adler
“Today is the result of yesterday and the seed of tomorrow.”
“The truth will set you free but first it will make you uncomfortable”
— Gloria Steinem
“If you are not getting better you are getting worse”
— Pat Riley
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday not to who someone else is today and let time measure your growth”
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you keep promises to yourself when no one checks.”
“The iron ore thinks itself senselessly tortured in the furnace, but the tempered blade looks back and knows better.”
“Life is a school, and living is learning.”
— Henry Ford
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
“Do not be ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
“Make an effort to improve little by little.”
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
— Seneca the Elder
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
— Jack Welch
“You outgrow limits by keeping promises to yourself.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
“The mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.”
“You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.”
— Joel Osteen
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
“Defeat myself today.”
— Dante
“Momentum returns quickly when you solve root causes instead of symptoms.”
“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church”
— Tertullian
“The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.”
“The good life is a process, not a state of being.”
“The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.”
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
“We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”
— Bryan White
“A person becomes what they think.”
“Be grateful for small achievements, they are the beginning of big accomplishments.”
“If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
“The good life is a process not a state of being”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves.”
— Anatole France
“Life isnt about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“Know thyself.”
“Dont wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
“Learning is never a waste of time”
— Richard Templar
“When you know better, you do better.”
“If you write down the next step before ending the day, momentum becomes easier to keep.”
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
— Masanobu Fukuoka
“Momentum returns quickly when you act on feedback before it goes stale.”
“Growth comes from changing little by little every day.”
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
— Erich Fromm
“Great things never came from comfort zones.”
“No great thing is created suddenly.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you document what works and repeat it.”
“Failure is evidence of growth.”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.”
— Blaise Pascal
“You do not have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
— Les Brown
“If you start before you feel fully ready, stress drops and focus rises.”
“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”
— Nicolas Chamfort
“Dont live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness”
— Jean Vanier
“The soul that is not trained by experience has learned nothing.”
— Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib
“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
— Max DePree
“Growth comes when you endure discomfort.”
“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”
— Paul Tillich
“Knowledge is power, but using it is growth.”
— Robert Ingersoll
“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
“The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud.”
“The fortunate man is he who is born with a fair nature, is well nurtured, and has suffered all that he could suffer.”
— Solon
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
“Education is the process of engraving what kind of person one will become onto the soul.”
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.”
— Hal Elrod
“Family is both the cradle and the crucible of our becoming.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Today's hardship becomes tomorrow's strength.”
“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“Patience is a bitter fruit, but its fruit is sweet.”
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
— Bernard Baruch
“Momentum returns quickly when you close the loop on small commitments.”
“You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“I have grown most not from victories, but setbacks.”
— Serena Williams
“Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you?”
— Walt Whitman
“Your future changes when your standards change.”
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
“We become what we think”
— Burdingha
“Momentum returns quickly when you protect your first hour for meaningful work.”
“Growth and comfort do not coexist”
— Ginni Rometty
“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life”
“Only those who challenge themselves see a new world.”
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.”
— Saint Augustine
“To truly understand is to acknowledge one's mistakes.”
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual you will have to settle for the ordinary”
“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.”
“In any given moment we have two options to step forward into growth or to step back into safety”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
— Anaïs Nin
“If you keep meetings short and decisions clear, progress becomes visible.”
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth.”
— Frederick Douglass
“You need to fail to learn how to overcome failure.”
“No mud no lotus”
“You dont start out writing good stuff you start out writing bad stuff”
— Octavia Butler
“You can become a much greater person than you are now.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
— Oprah Winfrey
“The best thing about family life is that it forces you to grow and love beyond yourself.”
— Dorothy Day
“To move to the next stage, you must let go of the familiar.”
“The process makes you stronger than the outcome.”
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things and faith transforms each defeat into growth”
“One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.”
“That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.”
“If you grow by just 1% every day, you will be 37 times better in a year.”
— James Clear
“They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.”
“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”
— James Joyce
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
“If you review your priorities every morning, momentum becomes easier to keep.”
“Move out of your comfort zone you can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new”
— Brian Tracy
“Leaders are not born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.”
— Vince Lombardi
“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.”
“In a day when you do not come across any problems you can be sure you are traveling in a wrong path.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Learning how to grow, that is the most important thing we can do.”
“Every artist was first an amateur”
“True skills grow in times of quiet growth.”
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man true nobility is being superior to your former self”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The only journey is the one within.”
“Learning is youth, and understanding is maintaining youth.”
— José Martí
“You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new”
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
“Real love always brings about growth in compassion and understanding for both the giver and receiver”
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to tolerate insecurity.”
“Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation.”
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
— Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
“Constant self-improvement is the best investment.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
— Winston Churchill
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Conquering oneself is the true victory.”
“Be thankful for what you have and you will end up having more.”
“Run my dear from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings.”
— Hafiz
“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”
“Doing your best in small tasks is the beginning of big dreams.”
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
“Small achievements build great confidence.”
“Thought without learning is useless.”
“Growth in compassion happens through those we welcome into our lives especially the vulnerable”
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
“Becoming is better than being.”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
“If you practice the fundamentals relentlessly, results become repeatable.”
“Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself not comparing yourself to others”
— Martin Seligman
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
“If you keep your standards when no one is watching, stress drops and focus rises.”
“The good life in family is a process not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you say no to work that does not matter.”
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops but the cultivation and perfection of human beings”
“Adversity makes humans stronger.”
“Do not consider painful what is good for you.”
“Becoming better than yesterday, that's real growth.”
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”
— Harold Wilson
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does love is a battle love is a war love is a growing up”
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
“No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig and if you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time and faith for growth”
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
— Cicero
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
“One must learn to be patient and find that things will come to one in their own good time.”
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
“Work to become, not to acquire.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear.”
“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.”
“Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.”
“It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.”
— Wendell Berry
“To teach is to learn twice.”
— Joseph Joubert
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.”
— Melody Beattie
“If roses can grow through concrete then so can you”
— Nikita Gill
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
“When you feel limits, you are in the process of growing.”
“I have forced myself to contradict myself to avoid conforming to my own taste”
— Marcel Duchamp
“Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
“The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of being some day a commander.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”
“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.”
— Thomas Szasz
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
— Oscar Wilde
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
— John Quincy Adams
“When we were children we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability.”
— Madeleine LEngle
“Life is about discovering yourself. The more I know what I want, the more I know who I am.”
— James Michener
“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.”
— Erica Jong
“We do not grow absolutely chronologically we grow sometimes in one dimension and not in another”
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
“If you finish one hard task before noon, progress becomes visible.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
“No man can have patience who has not strong passions.”
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