Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

—Robert Louis Stevenson

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

—William Ellery Channing

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

—Henry Miller

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

—Pablo Picasso

To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?

—Sarah Patton Boyle

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

—Max Depree

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.

—Anais Nin

We find comfort among those who agree with us — growth among those who don’t.

—Frank A. Clark

You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

—Irish Proverb

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

—Ethel Barrymore

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

—Goethe

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

—Carl Jung

A finished person is a boring person.

—Anna Quindlen