Growth

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

Maya Angelou

If you don’t try to create the future you want, you must endure the future you get.

John C. Maxwell

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

Bernard Baruch

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Norman Vincent Peale

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

Albert Einstein

What the superior man seeks is in himself what the small man seeks is in others.

Confucius

The only thing that can grow is the thing you give energy to.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Change yourself - you are in control.

Mahatma Gandhi

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Chinese proverbs

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go to move forward.

C.S Lewis

Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the future. Concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Henri Bergson

Christianity seems at first to be about morality, rules, guilt and virtue, yet it leads you out of that, into something beyond.

C.S Lewis

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

Jesse Owens

Trees often transplanted seldom prosper.

Flemish proverbs

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Lao Tzu

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Billy Graham