My Growth Quotes

#1. I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

Ian MacKaye

#2. So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I'm a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.

Kanye West

#3. My growth depends on my walls coming down.

Evelyn Underhill

#4. Do you have any coffee?' ... 'It stunts my growth, and I'm afraid of death.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#5. Today, I will let things happen without worrying about the significance of each event. I will trust that this will bring about my growth faster than running around with a microscope. I will trust my lessons to reveal themselves in their own time.

Melody Beattie

#6. I am interested in what I earn; I am interested in my growth.

Ratan Tata

#7. The factors that contributed to my growth were many - finding someone who understood me, exploring the unconscious, awakening my latent love ... but one star is brightest among all: the self. I found the source of livingness inside me, something I didn't even know existed.

Piero Ferrucci

#8. I am a phoenix rising from the ashes of my pain and suffering. Today I am reborn, today begins my growth and change.

Kaitlin D.S. Cammie

#9. Ironically, most of my growth has come through struggle.

Paula Heller Garland

#10. Often the strongest evidence of my growth in grace is my growth in the knowledge of my need for grace.

J.D. Greear

#11. Am I a storm-waster? For it is within the fury of the very storms within which I cower that I find resources for my growth that are entirely absent on calmer days.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#12. 'Law 3' shows my growth as a rapper. I don't really like maintaining, so on every project, I'm going to show you my growth.

Shy Glizzy

#13. My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.

Juliana Hatfield

#14. The more that I travel, the more people that I meet, the more experiences that are really a testament to the kind of person that I am, and you hear about my experiences and my growth through my music. I think that that is really relatable.

Zella Day

#15. I just want people to see my growth as an artist, and singer.

Leon Bridges

#16. I was especially fond of animals, and was indulged by my parents with a great variety of pets. With these I spent most of my time, and never was so happy as when feeding and caressing them.This peculiarity of character grew with my growth, I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure.

Edgar Allan Poe

#17. You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my growth as a person and a musician.

Lita Ford

#18. But in my growth and development, I knew I wanted more. And more. Oh, God. So much more. It's what being human is all about.

James Lusarde

#19. I have a condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI), which has affected my growth and bone strength. In short, people with the kind of OI I have generally experience hundreds of fractures in their lifetime and use wheelchairs for mobility.

Stella Young

#20. I was very young when I was in RNBDJ and that journey had enabled me as an actor. I am not very confident of my growth as an actor but I am very confident of my growth as a person.

Anushka Sharma

#21. I've found that human beings learn from their misdeeds just as often as from their good deeds. I am envious of that, for I am incapable of misdeeds. Were I not, then my growth would be exponential.

Neal Shusterman

#22. My life is an unfinished product, but instead of just saying, 'How do I top what I've accomplished,' I decided I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step into the next chapter.

Josh Groban

#23. My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.

Chris Matakas

#24. I now measure my growth as a photographer in terms of the degrees to which I am aware of, have developed my sense of, and have the skills to symbolize visually the four-dimensional structure of the universe.

Wynn Bullock

#25. All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life.

Barbara Jordan

#26. I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.

Mahatma Gandhi

#27. Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.

Abigail Thomas

#28. I learned from my mistakes; I was able to accept the things that were my fault and to be able to grow from that. You have to be able to see growth from your experiences, and I've done that.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#29. One must avoid getting stuck in the negative memories because these can block personal growth.

Hina Hashmi

#30. Food insecurity and hunger are serious threats to children's health, growth, and development. The idea of not being able to put plentiful, nutritious food on the table for my girls is a horrifying thought.

Samantha Harris

#31. The banner waved by the religious leaders reads; do not upset my world! Jesus is one who comes to call an about face and reverse the curse. Jesus call is not half way or three quarters; it is a complete and utter abandonment to his Lordship. Will the Pharisees and Herodians submit to Jesus Lordship?

Jonah Books

#32. Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings.

Chris Matakas

#33. O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.

William Shakespeare

#34. I watch the growth of spirit in the children who come to my class.

William, Saroyan

#35. The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

Haruki Murakami

#36. I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn't. In fact, I didn't even know you were supposed to have one.

John C. Maxwell

#37. I would prefer my experiences in communication to have a growth-promoting effect, both on me and on the other, and I should like to avoid those communication experiences in which both I and the other person feel diminished.

Carl R. Rogers

#38. Whatever I contributed to the unique morale of the Cardinals was part of this growth, and so, of course, was my decision to have it out in public with the owners of organized baseball.

Curt Flood

#39. I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.

Greg Bryk

#40. For years, I believed that God had been in motion on rare occasions and during biblical times, but I didn't understand that God never stops working on my behalf.

Jeff Leake

#41. I am so often the architect of my own pain and the engineer of my own failures.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#42. The most creative and most periods of my life that were, had the most growth, were the ones where I was perceived to be failing. Perceived success is a, is really hard 'cause it doesn't really, it's not asking you to grow, see failure is asking you to grow.

Ethan Hawke

#43. Not scared.
But excited in that
jiggering-on-too-much-hot-sauce
kind of way
that it's time to
step out
of my old framework,
raw and amorphous,
to become something I've never thought of before.

Thalia Chaltas

#44. I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

Tracy Chapman

#45. I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth.

Nikki Rowe

#46. Your words don't match your vibe,
& im trusting my gut this time.

Nikki Rowe

#47. My center does not come from my mind - it feels in me like a plot of warm moist well tilled earth with the sun shining hot on it ... It seems I would rather feel starkly empty than let any thing be planted that cannot be tended to the fullest possibility of its growth ...

Georgia O'Keeffe

#48. I couldn't have been a novelist without being a mother. It gives you a unique witness point of the growth of a personality. It was a kind of biological component for me that had to come first. My children gave this other window on the world.

Carol Shields

#49. My policy in America is, 'Steady growth is forever.'

Anthony Pratt

#50. It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.

Auliq Ice

#51. When I came to see that Christian growth doesn't happen by working hard to get something you don't have, but rather it happens by working hard to live in the reality of what you already have, this gospel insight radically transformed my life.

Tullian Tchividjian

#52. Mastering my mind one thought at a time.

Nikki Rowe

#53. My ability is greater than my disability.

Nikki Rowe

#54. The fun for me is to mix it all up. I would actually like to do something as far away from what I've just done, just for my own personal joy and growth, for what I want to do.

Don Cheadle

#55. Let me be content with myself to the degree that my capacity to serve others is present, yet discontent with myself to the degree that I may still like to grow in better service for others.

Criss Jami

#56. I dance to the beat of the earth the memories are the lyrics I write nature leads my soul through this existence I call life.

Nikki Rowe

#57. One thing I have learned in my 46 years on this planet is that the greatest opportunity for growth and understanding comes through the challenges that we encounter.

Bryan Kest

#58. I am very proud of my musical growth and contributions to the band in the last four years. I have nothing but positive thoughts and feelings towards John, Mike, James, and John. Jordan Rudess is a friend of mine and a great talent. I wish all of them the very best!

Derek Sherinian

#59. I believe that my handicap will only enhance my ability to help others. I know that without the suffering, the growth that I have achieved would have been impossible.

Viktor E. Frankl

#60. If I had created myself, I would be taller, blond, and more well endowed, financially. I would have cast out spiders and bad-hair days. Therefore, and hence, I believe strongly in a Creator who not only gave me the gift, but the free will to create my own journey through life.

Audrey Conn

#61. My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.

Sara Zarr

#62. Oh gods, please tel me you've spil ed a drink on your shirt and you're temporarily walking with her to hide the stain. Because Deacon, I'd rather floss my teeth with a daimon's back hair than parade a growth like that around

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#63. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder, one who looks at the traditional question of "How do I get customers for my product?" and answers with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. . . .

Ryan Holiday

#64. Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.

Sue Kelly

#65. Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Juvenal

#66. Like a butterfly stuck in a chrysalis, waiting for the perfect moment, I was waiting for the day I could burst forth and fly away and find my home.

Emme Rollins

#67. Love me only for my actions, and I will grow stressed.
Love me only for my body, and I will grow paranoid.
Love me only for my words, and I will grow bitter.
Love me only for my soul, and I will grow.

Vironika Tugaleva

#68. God loves me just as I am today. He knows all my junk ... and lack of faith, and he loves me anyway. However, he loves me too much to leave me the way I am.

Michelle Akers

#69. A con artist, a total imposter, had played on my desires for the Cinderella dream and won a Monopoly trip to jail. I had hoped for uprightness, integrity, and potentially a relationship. Longing overshadowed the voice of conscience.

Debra Moffitt

#70. I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Doug Peacock

#71. The report card just told me, my teacher, my parents maybe 3 weeks before when they gave me a test HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY POTENTIAL.

Bob Proctor

#72. Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.

Carol Kent

#73. My cup was already brimming before I met him - after it runneth over.

Erica Goros

#74. Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [ ... ] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they sense their growth has been arrested. Certainly many patients look to therapy to reinstitute the growth process. (33)

Alexander Lowen

#75. For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool?

Stendhal

#76. I have stretch marks on my heart.

Bella Bloom

#77. For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.

Frank Press

#78. I started from B-grade films, and today I'm the number one actress of this country ... whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched ... they are still there and have not risen to another platform.

Kangana Ranaut

#79. My elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement. And a movement to do what? To restore common sense. A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.

John Kasich

#80. In my own life, I have always viewed personal mastery as simply a medium through which I become capable of providing more service toward my fellow man.

Chris Matakas

#81. 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.

Ricky Williams

#82. After I read David Suzuki's book, I took salmon from my dinner plate and I buried it in the woods, hoping to assist the growth of a large tree.

Ned Hayes

#83. If I don't see the reason of someone being my friend, chances are, we are just floating and I need a ship to set sail.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#84. My research in this period centered around growth, technical change, and income distribution, both how growth affected the distribution of income and how the distribution of income affected growth.

Joseph Stiglitz

#85. As an instructor, my goal has always been to use Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to help our students achieve their goals, whatever the case may be. I have yet to find a better vehicle for growth, and the moment I do I will certainly pursue it with the rivaled fervor that I approached Jiu Jitsu.

Chris Matakas

#86. I did not kill my father, but I sometimes felt I had helped him on his way. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared to what followed.

Ian McEwan

#87. I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to "surround yourself with people who are better than you," and I was now living that mantra.

Kimberly Novosel

#88. 'Freaks and Geeks' was my favorite show when it was on, by a wide measure. And that's the show I wanted to do. I noodled with the idea of doing a show about teenagers that told small stories, small moments of personal growth.

Rob Thomas

#89. There are those who say that trees shade the garden too much, and interfere with the growth of the vegetables. There may be something in this:but when I go down the potato rows, the rays of the sun glancing upon my shining blade, the sweat pouring down my face, I should be grateful for shade.

Charles Dudley Warner

#90. My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.

Peter Golkin

#91. Keeping a commitment to listening has led me to my own growth, beyond any imagined dreams I may have had throughout the years.

Mark Nepo

#92. I love to watch my daughter. At twenty-two months, that little soul is developing at a rate I will never understand. She's kind of taught me that growth and expansion are a person's natural state and inclination.

Daniel Gillies

#93. I hated the flashcards and I hated the multiplication tables, but I did enjoy the fact that my dad took time out of his schedule to help me in the areas in which I needed it.

Sara Dormon

#94. I may appear stand off-ish but I'm not. I just let go of my attachment to things.

Turcois Ominek

#95. I feel like I have been able to notice throughout the incremental march of history during the course of my own lifetime patterns emerging, and there's a sort of a rubber band effect that happens where social growth and change is concerned.

LeVar Burton

#96. For decades, as literary editor, I have followed the growth of our creative writing in English. In my Solidaridad Bookshop, half of my stock consists of Filipino books written in English and in the native languages.

F. Sionil Jose

#97. As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.

Mary E. DeMuth

#98. Those were my Human Growth and Development notes, dicklick,

Rainbow Rowell

#99. There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#100. I'm as proud of my inconsistencies as I am my consistencies.

Myles Horton