Quotes about Growth

We grow small trying to be great.

We should not seek to tune out the realists' whines or taunts, as they may provide good instruction.

I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.

Any person who contributes to prosperity must prosper in turn.

The new midlife is where you realize that even your failures make you more beautiful and are turned spiritually into success if you became a better person because of them. You became a more humble person. You became a more merciful and compassionate person.

Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Movements are like rivers. Dipping into them is never the same twice.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.

It's not about getting what you want. It's about experiencing what you really need by becoming more.

If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.