Growth Quotes

I am weary of this notion of faithfulness to a point of view at all cost. Life around us is ever cha...

Somehow in the chaos and mess she'd discovered who she was. Not a girl of the streets, though that w...

In my experience, self-hatred is the dominant malaise crippling Christians and stifling their growth...

Several times in my ministry people have expressed the fear that self-acceptance will abort the ongo...

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy a...

Another great example of the power of vulnerability -- this time in a corporation -- is the leadersh...

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

This doesn't mean that we stop helping people set goals or that we stop expecting people to grow and...

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ...

Now, it may surprise you to learn that in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, [God] r...

... To be in time means to change.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effor...

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle...

Science is only a Latin word for knowledge

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart...

Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to ...

We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our lear...

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our par...

No wonder we cannot appreciate the really central Kafka joke: that the horrific struggle to establis...

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.

Were you always such a snake," the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are?

Don’t follow someone else’s map. You should glean teachings from all directions, keeping true to tho...

The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make c...

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave ...

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.

She gave up trying to understand herself, and the vast armies of the benighted, who follow neither t...

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoid...

I will come back to you, I swear I will;And you will know me still.I shall be only a little tallerTh...

Degraded bird, I give you back your eyes forever, ascend now whither you are tossed;Forsake this wri...

An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of pe...

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapi...

I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes ...

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...

We owned what we learned back there the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be se...

If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, an...

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent a...

Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punis...

You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of exp...

Each new step into his new human existence is frightening. It always means to give up a secure state...

I have awaited a storm that should deliver me, pluck me away and now it has come softly, even withou...

If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that ge...

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming throu...

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one chil...

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dr...

A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of ...

Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least fa...

I don't want euro bonds that serve to mutualize the entire debt of the countries in the euro zone. T...

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre...

The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the grow...

But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the wh...

After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may ...

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printe...

Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything h...

There is wisdom in turning as often as possible from the familiar to the unfamiliar: it keeps the mi...

The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the econ...

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before i...

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, b...

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

The lotus is the most beautiful flower, whose petals open one by one. But it will only grow in the m...

A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take u...

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, ...

They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can i...

I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the ...

If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only way to move things forward.

If somebody tells you a rule, break it. That's the only thing to move things forward.

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner...

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

It's confusing when people who do not know me say they miss the old me. You know me merely through t...

It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows...

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

India is a vibrant nation whose strength lies in its commitment to equal rights and to speech, relig...

Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coi...

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the grow...

There is no steady unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed gradations, an...

Voll Blüten steht der Pfirsichbaum nicht jede wächst zur Frucht sie schimmern hell wie Rosenschaum d...

I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer s...

Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience...

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It woul...

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday...

But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile with...

[A man] finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in...

I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest pro...

But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It ca...

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit ...

Wherever the shadow of economic growth touches us, we are left useless unless employed on a job or e...

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone b...

I urge you: don't cut short these thought-trains of yours. Follow them through to their end. Your th...

The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to gro...

Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal...

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushe...