You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

—Marie Curie

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

—Pablo Picasso

He not busy being born is busy dying.

—Bob Dylan

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

—Anais Nin

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

—Goethe

A finished person is a boring person.

—Anna Quindlen

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

—Ann Morrow Lindbergh

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

—Max De Pree

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

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

—Henry Miller

If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone.

 —John Maxwell

You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety.

—Abraham Maslow