Quotes about Growth
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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.
— Norman Vincent Peale
People who are able to turn criticism into a positive situation are going to attract friends.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
— Norman Vincent Peale
No matter what mistakes you have made - no matter how you've messed things up - you can still make a new beginning. The person who fully realises this suffers less from the shock and pain of failure and sooner gets off to a new beginning.
— Norman Vincent Peale
What is the kingdom of God like? . . . It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air perched in its branches." LUKE 13:18—19
— Norman Vincent Peale
The secret of life isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Can you help me?" "Well," I said, "perhaps I can help you help yourself.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Let the challenge of your ambitions, of your aspirations, rouse your slumbering and often unused powers into action.
— Norman Vincent Peale