Growth Mindset Quotes
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
"Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows."
"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential."
"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."
"Growth is the only evidence of life."
"Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead."
"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning."
"A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow."
"Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into."
"Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit."
"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
"Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities."
"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you do not belong."
"Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds."
"The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun."
"It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works."
"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
"Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false."
"I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt."
"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years."
"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward."
"A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder."
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
"The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal."
"In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?"
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
"I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made."
"Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it."
"You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life."
"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
"Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner."
"Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth let a people loving freedom come to growth."
"In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm."
"My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow."
"My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man."
"My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail."
"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."
"For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad."
"I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30."
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."
"If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you."
"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us."
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
"My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise."
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