growth Quotes

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

We must cultivate our own garden. When man was put in the garden of Eden he was put there so that he should work, which proves that man was not born to rest.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.