Growth
678 quotes: 69 by Keith Craft, 609 from other voices.
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- Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Never say you can’t do it. Say I haven’t done it yet.
- Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.
- No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.
- No man can be good, or great, or happy, except through inward efforts of his own.
- No man can end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
- No man can live half a life when he has genuinely learned that it is only half a life. The other half, the higher half, must haunt him.
- No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
- No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.Marc ChernoffSourced
- No matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.
- No resistance, no growth.
- No soul can grow to its full stature without spells of solitude.
- Nobody cares what you did yesterday. What have you done today to better yourself?
- Nobody contents himself with rough diamonds, or wears them so. When polished and set, then they give a lustre.
- Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
- Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.
- Nobody wants to show you the hours and hours of becoming. They’d rather show the highlight of what they’ve become.
- None have more pride than those who dream that they have none. You may labor against vainglory till you conceive that you are humble, and the fond conceit of your humility will prove to be pride in full bloom.
- Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
- Not hammerstrokes, but dance of the water sings the pebbles into perfection.
- Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
- Nothing gets stronger without resistance.
- Now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you, ‘Stay hungry, stay foolish‘.
- Observe your enemies for they first find out your faults.
- One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
- One of the sure signs of maturity is the ability to rise to the point of self criticism.
- One who is contented with what he has done will never become famous for what he will do. He has lain down to die. The grass is already growing over him.
- Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.Anne Morrow LindberghSourced
- Only while sleeping one makes no mistakes. Making mistakes is the privilege of the active—of those who can correct their mistakes and put them right.Ingvar KampradSourced
- Opposition is what we want and must have, to be good for anything. Hardship is the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
- Our follies and errors are the soiled steps to the Grecian temple of our perfection.
- Our strength grows out of our weakness.
- Pain is part of life. Accept it. Live through it. Learn from it. Then growth will show up quietly, almost as if by accident.
- Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening.
- Pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. Hardly anyone does that, and it’s incredibly helpful.
- People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
- People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
- People want progress, but they don't want change.
- People who grow are just people who own their mistakes and move on.
- Perhaps one can learn only by one’s own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living.