Growth Quotes

“If you say to one flower, ‘Grow,’ but you water another, the first one won’t grow.” ~ Stephen Covey, The 8th Habit

“Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up – it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.” ~ Bruce Lee, Striking Thoughts

“Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.” ~ John Wooden

“Everybody wants to reach the peak, but there is no growth on the top of a mountain. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life’s next peak.” ~ Andy Andrews, The Noticer

“There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits on the human capacity for intelligence, imagination and wonder.” ~ Ronald Reagan

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” ~ Richard Steele, The Tatler

The grass is greener where you water it.

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness.” ~ Victor Frankl

“Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress – stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.” ~ Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“I’ve come to embrace the notion that I haven’t done enough in my life. I’ve come to confirm that one’s title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one’s life has been led. No matter how much you’ve done or how successful you’ve been, there’s always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.” ~ Barack Obama

“We need to see pain in the right light; we need to contextualize it and develop a proper attitude toward life, one of self-mastery, creation, and ultimately a kind of playfulness. Then, each individual failure, each accident will be redeemed within the greater context of a successful life, a life of one’s own making.” ~ Jacob Held

“We don’t grow old. We get old by not growing.” ~ Gary Mack, Mind Gym

“Don’t despair over what is still left to learn, but marvel at the progress you have made. Growth is a positive thing so keep on keeping on.” ~ Unknown

“The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” ~ Jim Rohn

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.” ~ Albert Einstein

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.” ~ Bruce Lee

“You have to water the flowers you want to grow.” ~ Stephen Covey