John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

I don't have any personal challenges about throwing away the past. If you're not changing, you're giving others a chance to catch up.

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

Life is a work in progress.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

I used to be.

I change every day. I'm still changing.

I think I'm always a little bit under construction. I'm a project that I'm trying to improve upon.

I'm not going to the past, and it's not tied to me, every time moving forward, and this is more important - to move forward every time.

I am never going to stop evolving and growing.

Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Urden

I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

My life is an unfinished product, but instead of just saying, 'How do I top what I've accomplished,' I decided I wanted to move forward, express my growth and take a big step into the next chapter.

You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.

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

To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny.

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.