Quotes about Growth

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

I believe in this concept that you learn by teaching.

The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.

An essential part of teaching children to be disciplined and responsible is to have them learn to work.

I spent three weeks lamenting, ruminating and praying because football had been part of my life since age 6. Then I moved on. I'm glad I always had another clear plan. Several of my FSU teammates did not and do not. It's hard to leave a sport that is embedded in you.

All children are rebellious. They are all self-centered and think the world revolves around them. That is why they need parents to raise them. Almost every child will, at times, bring reproach on his family, but he is still a part of the family.

Knowledge without application eventually becomes boring and unfulfilling

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.