Growth Is Painful Quotes

#1. Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#2. We fear disturbance, change, fear to bring to light and to talk about what is painful. Suffering often feels like failure, but it is actually the door into growth.

May Sarton

#3. Even in the growth mindset, failure can be a painful experience. But it doesn't define you. It's a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from.

Carol S. Dweck

#4. Change means growth, and growth can be painful. But we sharpen self-definition by exposing the self in work and struggle together with those whom we define as different from ourselves, although sharing the same goals. (151)

Stewart Burns

#5. We have all suffered losses and pain, but no loss is greater than a life lost holding-on to a painful past.

Bryant McGill

#6. How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is uncomfortable, but it's worse to thwart the ascent of your authenticity.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#7. Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.

Jeb Hensarling

#8. There are two ways to grow: by stealing from the competition or by growing the market. The first path is slow and painful and difficult. The second path is where the magic of fast growth kicks in.

Seth Godin

#9. I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

Marianne Williamson

#10. Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

Bryant McGill

#12. I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

Jon Stewart

#13. First we crawl. Later we crawl on broken glass.

Scott Meyers

#14. All humans change. Development is our life. Transition, in labor, is the most painful time. Without change, there's no growth.

Mimi Kennedy

#15. As painful as some of the past year's changes have been, they will ultimately lead to a better place. The adversity you come across in life may cause pain, but with pain comes growth and the opportunity to rise to the occasion as your strongest, best self.

Jennifer Lopez

#16. Growth is often a painful process.

Elbert Hubbard

#17. Negativity is a debilitating disease. It is a slow and painful way to experience life. It attacks the immune system, creates anxiety, and can lead to loneliness and depression. Finding your inner harmony is the quickest way to alleviate the methodical destruction of this dark energy

Gary Hopkins

#18. Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Sarah McLachlan

#19. Your past is like a bag of bricks; set it down and walk away. Quit collecting every painful word, memory and mistake. Collect hope.

Bryant McGill

#20. Growth is a painful process.

Wilma Mankiller

#21. A change of perspective may be all it takes to transform a painful experience into a powerful growth experience.

Iyanla Vanzant

#22. Each of the painful "problems" in our lives contains valuable healing lessons. They teach us awareness and hopefully convince us to let go of our blind spots, prejudices, and tendencies to ignore our intuition and other growth lessons.

Doreen Virtue

#23. Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths

Charles Spurgeon

#24. Lies can make harsh truths less painful. But I believe pain is essential for growth.

Morgan Rhodes

#25. we are affirming our trust that creation means well within us all, and that whatever painful growth and change may lie ahead, it is leading us to Life, not destruction

Margaret Silf

#26. We cannot afford not to fight for growth and understanding, even when it is painful, as it is bound to be.

May Sarton

#27. Someone once told me that we move when it becomes less painful than staying where we are.

Anne Hines

#28. Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.

Marianne Williamson

#29. Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.

James P. Krehbiel

#30. At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.

Colin Tipping

#31. Productivity growth, however it occurs, has a disruptive side to it. In the short term, most things that contribute to productivity growth are very painful.

Janet Yellen

#32. And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Anais Nin

#33. Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

Marianne Williamson

#34. Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bitter-sweet gift of life.

Bryant McGill

#35. Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

Anthony De Mello

#36. There isn't a need to sugar coat life anymore,
Cant we see we live through enough lies, deciet and painful realities to create more, by stagnating the growth of the ones your suppose to make an Impact on and more importantly yourself.
Let life be funny, but never a joke.

Nikki Rowe

#37. If there is a soul, then it is a mistake to think that it is given to us completely created. It is created right here for a lifetime. Life is nothing but a long, painful process of creation.

Eric Maisel

#38. The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and ... each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

Carl Jung

#39. I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow.

Nikki Rowe

#40. We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful.

Mary Antin

#41. When you look back at the painful and difficult events of your life, you find that they were the times of your greatest personal growth. The challenges of our lives provide us the opportunity to develop our highest potentials.

John Bruna