Growth Quotes

The main requirement for spiritual growth: A yearning to know who you really are.

To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.

You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.

If a person will spend one hour a day on the same subject for five years, that person will be an expert on that subject.

Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.

As we run, we become.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

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

In the '30s, the Keynesian stuff worked at least in the sense that you could print money without inflation because there was all this productivity growth happening. That's not going to work today.

The idea that growth equals profitability is a misconception. If you can't afford the financial or qualitative side of growth, it can just as easily put you out of business.

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Once employees feel challenged, invigorated and productive, their efforts will naturally translate into profit and growth for the organisation.

Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow, there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends, give me it all, you can't invest wisely.

Ugliness and evil are necessary for growth but they may be experienced vicariously.

As for the presence of large NGF [nerve growth factor] sources in snake venom and male genital organs, they may be conceived as instances of bizarre evolutionary gene expression.

The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.

...when people already know they're deficient, they have nothing to lose by trying.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.

Our eternal spiritual self is more real than anything we perceive in this physical realm, and has a divine connection to the infinite love of the Creator.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Things that you cannot face in yourself you will hate when you see them in someone else.

Any growth requires a temporary loss of security.

All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's.

Fear is the great barrier to human growth.

I’m interested in natural growth patterns, and the beautiful forms that only nature creates. How that flows through me and how that comes out is what I’m trying to understand.

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

You see, growing in grace doesn't mean doing more or greater things for God. True growth comes in doing the same things over and over, with more heart assurance that we're doing everything for Him.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are responsible for the growth of ISIS because they precipitously withdrew from Iraq in 2011 against the advice of every single general and for political expediency.

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth.

Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower. Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.

In true love, you attain freedom.

Freedom is the fundamental condition for any growth.

Without trust, there can be no loyalty - and without loyalty, there can be no true growth.

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

Rapid population growth and technological innovation, combined with our lack of understanding about how the natural systems of which we are a part work, have created a mess.

Pain is the touchstone of all growth

We should open ourselves to the impossible and embrace a psychology of possibility.

I try to grow like a tree, and hope that I can reach my full potential by the end of this short life. Change is good but growth is better.

We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen.