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Growth (21)
Aphorisms 19
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
— Anaïs Nin
The increase in your value comes before the increase in your paycheck.
— Dan Kennedy
The fact of the matter is that there will be nothing learned from any challenge in which we don't try our hardest…
— Josh Waitzkin
To succeed you must first improve, to improve you must first practice, to practice you must first learn, and to learn…
— Anonymous
We don't need to be the best. What life expects from us is to strive to be the best we can be.
— Anonymous
Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
— George Conrad
Progress means simplifying, not complicating.
— Bruno Munari
All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.
— Michael John Bobak
Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.
— Ralph Sockman
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
— Mevlana Celaleddin-i Rumi
He or she who is willing to be the most uncomfortable is not only the bravest but rises the fastest.
— Brené Brown
An adult life is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh…
— Jill Ker Conway
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Without problems there would be no reason to improve.
— Benjamin C. Jones
Improving your life is a matter of experiencing desirable failures.
— Mark Manson
If you’re not failing, you’re not learning. If you’re not learning, you’re not growing. If you’re not growing, you’re…
— Mark Manson
If you cringe at your former self, that’s good—it means you’ve grown. Never stop cringing.
— Mark Manson
It’s impossible to be your best self without disappointing some people some of the time.
— Mark Manson
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.
— Friedrich Nietzche