Quotes about Growth
Every unmortified sin will certainly do two things: [1.] It will weaken the soul, and deprive it of its vigour. [2.] It will darken the soul, and deprive it of its comfort and peace.
— John Owen
We shed skins in life, to keep living.
— John Updike
And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?
— John Updike
And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.
— John Updike
Weeds don't know they're weeds.
— John Updike
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
— John Wooden
Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.
— John Wooden
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
— John Wooden
Failure is not Fatal, but Failure to CHANGE can be.
— John Wooden
A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people.
— John Wooden
If I am through learning, I am through.
— John Wooden
It is important for us to see that our mentors are human and therefore fallible; it makes our own shortcomings more tenable.
— John Wooden