Growth Quotes

To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

If I feel like I've reached this greatness in my career than there's no more room for growth. I don't think I'm ever going to get there. If I ever get complacent, it's time for me to bow out.

A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.

Our system - of debt-fueled economic growth, of ineffective democracy, of overloading planet Earth - is eating itself alive.

Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.

I think that life is about growth. You continue to grow and progress, hopefully.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

The aim of education is growth: the aim of growth is more growth

I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors.

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

Exponential growth in access to the Internet, satellite television and radio, cell phones, and P.D.A.'s means that breaking news now reaches virtually every corner of the globe.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

The basic idea was that if a country would put its economy as an integrated piece of the world system, that it would benefit from that with economic growth. I concur with that basic view.

Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.

Conflicts bring experience and experience brings that growth in Grace which is not to be attained by any other means!

If you become a giver, you'll make them feel like they want to reciprocate.

We have been restraining the growth of the cost of education-that is, tuition, room and board-to be within approximately one and a half percentage points of the consumer price index.

Well, I think lower taxes and less regulation would actually promote growth.

Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP.

This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks.

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

Your failures and your faults, they stick with you. They glob into ugly, cancerous growths inside you and make you want to die.

Not one of the good-to-great companies focused obsessively on growth.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

Love is the real work of your life. It is your spiritual path. It is the key to your growth and evolution.

I make no distinction between the mind and the spirit, and therefore no distinction between the process of achieving spiritual growth and achieving mental growth. They are one and the same.

My definition of economic development is economic growth.

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country.

All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.

If we are going to carry on growing, and we will, because no country is going to forfeit its right to economic growth, we have to find a way of doing it sustainably.

Market growth alone doesn't give you enough tailwind. You have to create your own. The way to do that is by designing products for consumers that wow them.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California's economy. Women make California's economy unique.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

Deeper state intervention in an economy means that bureaucratic waste, inefficiency and corruption are more likely to hold back growth.

Something of defeat, something of tragedy, can be a sacrament because it stops us and causes us to look deeper.

I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.