Growth Quotes

I don’t mind losing as long as I see improvement or I feel I’ve done as well as I possibly could.

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.

Vowing, even intense vowing, is often useless. The next day comes and the next day goes. What works is making a vivid, concrete plan.

Education is no longer thought of as a preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death.

Pain is the touchstone of all growth

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.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

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

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

It [further education] is most essential,otherwise I would not have educated my sons. I learnt the hard way.Maybe if I had some education my success and growth would have been quicker.

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

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.

The heart of animals is the foundation of their life, the sovereign of everything within them, the sun of their microcosm, that upon which all growth depends, from which all power proceeds.

The great are strongest when they stand alone, A God-given might of being is their force.

Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. As long as you stick to good, you'll never have real growth.

Exploration is the engine that drives innovation. Innovation drives economic growth. So let's all go exploring.

The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.

The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil.

Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.

Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.

Mediocrity is not worth the trip.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

The intelligent investor gets interested in big growth stocks not when they are at their most popular - but when something goes wrong.

In every area, working with what you habitually reject is one of the best ways to facilitate growth and transformation.

Surrender comes when you no longer ask, 'Why is this happening to me?'

Excessive (population) growth may reduce output per worker, repress levels of living for the masses and engender strife

This is hard. This is fun.

Science and psychology have isolated the one prime cause for success or failure in life. It is the hidden self-image you have of yourself.

I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

God’s Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.

There's only one growth strategy: work hard.

The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

The enterprise that does not innovate ages and declines. And in a period of rapid change such as the present, the decline will be fast.

Stories are living and dynamic. Stories exist to be exchanged. They are the currency of Human Growth.

Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

Your soul mate can turn into your cell mate if the mutual desire for growth isn't there.

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.

Growth as an actor and as a human being are synonymous.

Globalization and free trade do spur economic growth, and they lead to lower prices on many goods.

The definition of success is getting many of the things money can buy and all the things money can't buy.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Surely it is time for Jews, worried over the huge growth of Arabs in Israel, to consider finishing the exchange of populations that began 35 years ago.

I wish someone would give me one shred of neutral evidence that financial innovation has led to economic growth — one shred of evidence.