Quotes about Growth

When someone is being particularly mean and nasty, I simply think to myself, he or she used to be a cute little baby, I wonder what happened?

if you can read, honey, you can learn just about anything you want to know. The doors of the world are open to people who can read.

Sometimes one has to be humble enough to start at the bottom with a minimum-wage job even if you have a college degree. Once you get your foot in the door, you can prove your worth and rapidly move up the ladder. If you never get in the door, it is unlikely that you will rise to the top.

The question is not whether a nation makes mistakes; the question is whether a nation learns from its mistakes, builds on that knowledge it gains over time, and grows in wisdom. Those nations who learn from their mistakes will become wise, while those who repeat the same mistakes over and over again, expecting a different result, are foolish.

How important it was to learn your own strengths and weaknesses from your mistakes.

I'm convinced that much of the success I have experienced in life is a result of learning from my failures.

if you can read, you can learn just about anything.

One day, you've found your chosen field, and you're already moving into it.

I had focused on the failure because I had not yet acquired the wisdom necessary to attain a better perspective.

If we are ever going to have adequate funding for health care and other major line items in our budget, however, we have to put an end to waste and fraud throughout the government, and we must create a friendly climate for economic growth.

Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.

When a chapter of your Life Book is complete, your spirit knows its time to turn the page so a new chapter can begin. Even when you're scared or think you're not ready your spirit knows you are.