Growth Quotes

The best education you can get is investing in yourself, and that doesn't mean college or university.

I have been accused of being a very simplistic, very lyrical player, and that's okay. That just comes from the blues, which is my background. But every day you wake up and transcend. You can't ever rest on your laurels.

It takes time to get rid of all this garbage that I've been carrying around that was influencing the way I thought and the way I lived. It had a lot to do with Yoko showing me that I was still possessed. I left physically when I fell in love with Yoko, but mentally it took the last ten years of struggling. I learned everything from her. ... It is a teacher-pupil relationship.

I think it's important that you know that I will never change. But I'll never stay the same either.

Growing up is scary because it happens without you knowing it.

I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today, I call it 'maturity'.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

Adversity is the mother of progress.

We are like newborn children, Our power is the power to grow.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gonna be tomorrow.

Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure.

I never view mistakes as failures. They are simply opportunities to find out what doesn't work.