Growth Quotes

Creativity itself doesn’t care at all about results—the only thing it craves is the process.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

— Will Durant

In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.

— Shunryu Suzuki

Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

— Neil Gaiman

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles.

— Martha Graham

It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap.

— Ira Glass

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

— George R. R. Martin

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

— Maya Angelou

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

— Pema Chödrön

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

— Rumi

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

— A.A. Milne

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts.

— Anne Lamott

A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.

— Anthony Trollope

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.

— Voltaire

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

— Mary Oliver

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are what we repeatedly do.

— Aristotle

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

— Albert Einstein

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

— Aristotle

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

— John Cage

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

— Oscar Wilde

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

— G. K. Chesterton

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

— Samuel Johnson