Quotes about Growth
Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.
— Brene Brown
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
— Epictetus
Change in all things is sweet.
— Aristotle
The thirst for education that comes with the change the gospel brings can be a blessing or a curse, depending on our motives.
— Henry B. Eyring
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
— Khalil Gibran
Have the humility to learn from those around you.
— John Maxwell
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
— St. Augustine
Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.
— Ignatius of Antioch
The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
— Malcolm X
I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
— Malcolm X