Growth Quotes Quotes

“You must have a level of discontent to feel the urge to want to grow.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“she was completely whole
and yet never fully complete”
― Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles

“Healing your wounds will hurt, so cry.
Cry your pretty little heart out until you have nothing left to shed, that's how beauty is grown;
through the darkest of our days we become the light.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Don’t feel bad about feeling bad. Don’t be frightened of feeling afraid. Don’t be angry about getting angry. There is no need to give up when we are feeling depressed. Nor should we be dismayed at the grief which often accompanies the outgrowing of anything which needs outgrowing. We can be glad that our soul is speaking to us and pushing us onwards. We frequently need to persevere with a period of inner turmoil before the dust can settle and be swept out the door.”
― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

“I'm not here to be small, to compare, to judge (myself or you), to fit in or to be perfect. I'm here to grow, to learn, to love, to be human.”
― Sue Fitzmaurice

“A seed neither fears light nor darkness, but uses both to grow.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“One must not avoid Schopenhauer. One should read him and then overcome him. It is the ladder that you must get rid of once you reach the top.”
― Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

“Don't let the clouds of failure overshadow you, and ruin your life.
There is a seed of success inside of you. Let it grow. Keep it alive.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.”
― Roy Bennett

“Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.”
― Kemi Sogunle

“Be like seeds; do not see dirt thrown at you as your enemy, but as ground to grow.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“CRITICISM is part of LEARNING and GROWTH. It means that you are taking INITIATIVES to learn something new and grow over from your current state. If you are not getting criticised, it means you are not taking enough RISK to learn something new and to grow.”
― Sanjeev Himachali

“We are the rare species we howl and moan at the same Time.”
― Nancy Omar, A Glimpse Of Heaven

“Learn from seeds; they don’t die when you throw dirt at them; they grow.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Some days I like to wander to old and warn our places, forests ripped apart by man and streams that carry stagnant water where it use to flow. There is a sense of clarity in these places, a reflection of who I am or atleast who I have been. Broken, yet still incredibly beautiful.”
― Nikki Rowe

“A flower will always grow in the direction of the sun because beauty recognises beauty.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“We draw into our life those who will help us to grow. Naturally, we tend to have mixed feelings about those very people but they are marked for us. We have forgotten that we wrote them an invitation some time ago. We look at them as if they are intruders when all along they are our guests.”
― Donna Goddard, Waldmeer

“The same way we grow our bodies we must attend to our mind and spirit.”
― Nikki rowe

“My greatest strengths are my weaknesses, for it is through acknowledging them that I learn how to grow.”
― Iain Cameron Williams

“Seeds do not make a sound when growing, but can even reach the sky. Learn from them.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present”
― Lao Tzu

“I am Karma, and Karma is me. I am good Karma because I choose to be good.”
― Marion Bekoe

“...the messy, dead and decaying things of our natural lives, can... if the truth be told, transform into something new and beautiful.”
― AshRawArt

“I sentenced my own pain
By wearing an emotion for too long,
A heavy clock that weighs me down
Where I didn’t belong

It’s hard to give a farewell to the self-imposed comfort
That shielded me from life’s uncertain storms,
Like a familiar blanket, it kept me warm
But also kept me stagnant, unable to transform.”
― Ritu Negi, Ethereal

“human beings -- the only beings on Earth who routinely thwart their own species' inbuilt needs for healthy growth. "In our culture," she said "we have pretty much unnested our children.”
― Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

“...may we begin to recognize that life’s greatest challenges may actually be the very things we need to help us to grow...”
― AshRawArt

“...periods of adversity or upheaval may... in actual fact, be the catalysts in life we need at times… to help us to unearth and to cultivate the infinite capacity for growth that God has spirited within us through the Holy Spirit.”
― AshRawArt

“Each breath is a door,
each moment a stair we have never climbed.”
― Sean Delaney

“There is no hurry to be whole,
no race to the finish line of yourself.

You are a process.

A perpetual symphony,
deepening inward, expanding upward.”
― Sean DeLaney

“I placed my trust in hands that only knew how to break; now, I rise, stronger from their ashes.”
― RAZRIFF SHARIFF AHMAD, Broken Bonds By Caelum1infernum