Quotes about Growth
Allowing the truth of who you are-your spiritual self-to rule your life means you stop the struggle and learn to move with the flow of your life.
— Oprah Winfrey
All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
— Publilius Syrus
Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.
— Will Rogers
If the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, then growing in our knowledge of God is always practical.
— Kevin DeYoung
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it.
— Teresa of Avila
The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.
— Lauren Kate
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
— William Saroyan
My hope for the future is that we learn wisdom again.
— Jane Goodall
Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom.
— Paul Tillich
If you try to assert wisdom before people have themselves walked it, be prepared for much resistance, denial, push-back, and verbal debate.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.
— Charles Dickens
The Spiritual disciplines are wisdom and not righteousness.
— Dallas Willard