Growth is not steady, forward, upward progression. It is instead a switchback trail; three steps forward, two back, one around the bushes, and a few simply standing, before another forward leap.Dorothy Corkville Briggs

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Pearl S. Buck

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

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. Mahatma Gandhi

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail. Charles A. Beard

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. Abraham Lincoln

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. Hermann Hesse

If it's not growing, it's going to die. Michael Eisner

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. Anatole France

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today. Joyce Chapman

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. Les Brown

Income seldom exceeds personal development. Jim Rohn