Best Quotes on Growth

The role of the teacher is like the proverbial ‘ladder’, used by everyone to climb up in life, but the ladder itself stays in its place.

Man needs difficulties in life because they are necessary to enjoy the success.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

Experience life in all possible ways—good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don't be afraid of experience because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

To raise your consciousness, surround yourself with people of higher consciousness.

Avoiding failure is to avoid progress.

No matter how much preparation we do, in the real tests of our lives, we'll be in unfamiliar terrain.

Sometimes, the only way to evolve is to open ourselves fully.

If you are ever the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room.

Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.

If you want something you've never had you must be willing to do something you've never done.

Investing in yourself is the best investment you will ever make.

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.

It's only after you've stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.

Fear, uncertainty, and discomfort are your compasses toward growth.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Real growth comes through intense, difficult, and challenging situations.

Be fascinated instead of frustrated.

When it hurts - observe. Life is trying to teach you something.

Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Confidence comes from crossing thresholds.

You win more from losing than winning.

Growth comes at the point of resistance.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Growth is in a series of mistakes. That's the only way you learn.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Progress is limited by your ability to change your mind.

Life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

Success is not to be pursued, it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Failure is feedback. Learn from it and move on.

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Meditate. It won't be fun but it will surface what you need to deal with.

Plants grow weak without wind.

Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.

It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.

Being wrong brings the opportunity for growth.

When the root is strong, the fruit is sweet.

We must cultivate our garden.

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

A path is made by walking on it.

The primary point of this existence is to live, and all living things move and grow.

Fools resist. The wise embrace.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.