Quotes about Growth

You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

And when I read, and really I do not read so much, only a few authors, - a few men that I discovered by accident - I do this because they look at things in a broader, milder and more affectionate way than I do, and because they know life better, so that I can learn from them.

But for one's health as you say, it is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.