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

—Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

—Phillips Brooks

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

—George Shinn

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

You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain and learn to accept it, not as a curse or punishment but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose.

—Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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

—Max Depree

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

—J. Michael Straczynski

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

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

A finished person is a boring person.

—Anna Quindlen

Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

—Mark Victor Hansen