Growth quotes

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Seneca
How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Rumi
Everything is figureoutable. Marie Forleo
What we fear most is usually what we most need to do. Tim Ferriss
Your only limitation is the one you set up in your own mind. Napoleon Hill
Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought. Napoleon Hill
Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, succeed, achieve exactly in accord with your own… Maxwell Maltz
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction in… Maxwell Maltz
Man maintains his balance, poise and sense of security only as he is moving forward. Maxwell Maltz
If we work in our imagination as we do in real life, our imaginations also work for us. Maxwell Maltz
When we change our minds, we change our lives. Maxwell Maltz
Within you, there is a Real Self, waiting to be released. The greatest discovery of your generation is… Maxwell Maltz
We act, or fail to act, not because of will as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. Maxwell Maltz
The man without imagination has no wings. Maxwell Maltz
The body cannot tell the difference between an experience that is real and one that is vividly imagined. Maxwell Maltz
We are constantly creating ourselves. We can change our self-image at will, and that change will… Maxwell Maltz
Try the new. There is no improvement without change. Maxwell Maltz
When we believe we can, we marshal forces, talents, and abilities which would otherwise lie dormant. Maxwell Maltz
If the picture we hold in our minds is one of failure, then we will indeed fail. If we picture success, we… Maxwell Maltz
Create your future from your future, not your past. Werner Erhard
Once you take a stand, your stand becomes the place from which life occurs. Werner Erhard
If you don't have what you want, you must want something more than what you want. Werner Erhard
We are not our story. Until we get that, our story keeps running us. Werner Erhard
The job of getting to the truth is the job of getting past your story. Werner Erhard
Be willing to be unreasonable about what is possible. Werner Erhard
Transformation is not a question of becoming different from what you are. It is becoming yourself. Werner Erhard
Integrity is honoring your word as yourself. Werner Erhard
Responsibility begins with the willingness to be cause in the matter of one's life. Werner Erhard
What you resist persists. What you give space to dissolves. Werner Erhard
You and I want our lives to matter. We want our lives to make a real difference, to be of genuine consequence. Werner Erhard
Stop making sense and start making a difference. Werner Erhard
Commitment is not a feeling. Commitment is what you do when you are free, anytime, anywhere, no matter the… Werner Erhard
When you give your word, the universe rearranges itself to make it possible. Werner Erhard
The thing is, it isn't the way it is. It is the way you say it is. Werner Erhard
Possibility is generated in language. It does not exist until somebody speaks it. Werner Erhard
If you don't have a vision of the future, the past will run your life. Werner Erhard
Two things bring transformation. The breakdown of what was, and the willingness to be present for what arises. Werner Erhard
Stand for something. Or you will stand for anything. Werner Erhard
What we say is what we get. Speak as if your word were the cause of the future. Werner Erhard
Imagination is not a luxury. It is how we touch what is real. Stephen Harrod Buhner
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, I had that familiar… F. Scott Fitzgerald
Little by little, one travels far. J.R.R. Tolkien
I have been bent and broken, but, I hope, into a better shape. Charles Dickens
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the… Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. John Steinbeck
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
We can't choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there. Stephen Chbosky
Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow. Frances Hodgson Burnett
I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. Hermann Hesse
It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards. Yann Martel
Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation. Elizabeth Gilbert
The only way to learn is to live. Matt Haig
The only journey is the one within. Rainer Maria Rilke
We learn from failure, not from success! Bram Stoker
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
Your identity was always invented, what mattered was what you did with it. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The road through the mountains is long, but it is the journey that teaches. Natsume Soseki
All that you touch you change. All that you change changes you. Octavia Butler
You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it. Neil Gaiman
Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly. All of these things are necessary. Neil Gaiman
Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau
Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault. Louisa May Alcott
It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then. Lewis Carroll
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman. Simone de Beauvoir
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. Rainer Maria Rilke
It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be. J.K. Rowling
Normality is a paved road: it's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it. Vincent van Gogh
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself? Rumi
Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man who is in the process of changing. Brandon Sanderson
It's a man's purpose to learn things. That's what separates us from the animals. Patrick Rothfuss
We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be. Patrick Rothfuss
A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning. Ursula K. Le Guin
You're going to have new adventures, and most importantly, you're going to make new mistakes. Neil Gaiman
Nobody is ever finished. We are all works in progress. Neil Gaiman
A bruise is a lesson, and each lesson makes us better. George R.R. Martin
We have to be all those difficult things like cheerful and kind and curious and patient. Philip Pullman
Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance. T.H. White
The seeking counts more than the finding. Lloyd Alexander
Someone needs to learn how to change with the times. Erin Morgenstern
It is not our abilities that define us, but how we choose to use them. Christopher Paolini
When you have the chance, do better. Be better. Tomi Adeyemi
Change is the way of the world. Take that as wisdom from one who has seen it. Robin Hobb
The point of an education is to discover what you want to do, not just to learn how to do it. David Eddings
Strange how all of us start out so similar, and end up so very different. Jonathan Stroud
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves. V.E. Schwab
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. Frank Herbert
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. Frank Herbert
It is the simplest things that are the hardest to learn. Robin Hobb
Growing up means realizing your parents are people too. Tamora Pierce
You can't change other people. You can only change yourself. Kristin Cashore
We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the… Lloyd Alexander
A change of perspective is worth 80 IQ points. Terry Pratchett
The most important words a man can say are, I will do better. Brandon Sanderson
A man is what he chooses to become, not what he was born to be. Christopher Paolini
I will take responsibility for what I have done. If I must fall, I will rise each time a better man. Brandon Sanderson
Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing. Brandon Sanderson
You can't change where you've been, but you can change where you're going. Brandon Sanderson
Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. Terry Pratchett
We are all the multiple things that the days and the world have made us. Robin Hobb
Change can be sudden and irrevocable. Robin Hobb
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways. Neil Gaiman
I am a great fool. But you shall begin a new life with new comrades. C.S. Lewis
If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew… Joe Abercrombie
It's not about the destination. The getting there is good for you. Mark Lawrence
We are the sum of all the choices we have made. R.A. Salvatore
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research. David Eddings
It is not the destination but the journey that shapes us. Lloyd Alexander
You are the crucible. Now temper yourself. N.K. Jemisin
Maybe that was what it meant to be a grown-up: to know what was good for you but not do it. Lev Grossman
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are, but our choices. Christopher Paolini
Wisdom comes through suffering. Christopher Paolini
Of course it's not right. But you have to learn how to make the wrong things right. Terry Pratchett
Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to avoid failure is to have a life so… Brandon Sanderson
The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind. Patrick Rothfuss
It is the questions we cannot answer that teach us the most. Patrick Rothfuss

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