Quotes about Growth

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Give up the belief that mind is, even temporarily, compressed within the skull, and you will quickly become more manly or womanly. You will understand yourself and your Maker better than before.

I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology.

They say that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger and I've learnt a great deal, but you can never predict the future, so the best thing is just to do whatever you're asked to do to the best of your ability.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

The thing I always say to people is this: 'If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.'