Quotes about Growth

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

When your dream is bigger than you are, you only have two choices: give up or get help.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

True friends challenge us and help us to be faithful on our journey.

I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.

God wants to change us so much that it intrigues others.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.