Quotes about Growth

If my career was a basketball season, I'm in the pre-season still. I'm not blowing everybody out by 40 - there's so much work to be done, and there's no time to really sit and look back and be proud of what I've done yet, because it's the pre-season still.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

If you notice, no child star made it big when s/he grew up because the child's image was still fresh in people's memory. They could not digest the fact that the child star had grown into a man.

Nowhere else have I grown more in my faith than in the midst of my family.

The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.

The spiritual self of each of us is that part of us that will never grow old, or ill, or die, but it must be nurtured and invigorated!

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.

Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.

People who are able to turn criticism into a positive situation are going to attract friends.

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.