Growth
678 quotes: 69 by Keith Craft, 609 from other voices.
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- Plants grow weak without wind.
- Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.
- Progress does not occur without change.
- Progress is impossible without change
- Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.
- Progress is the real cure for an overestimate of ourselves.
- Progress isn’t linear. Success isn’t linear. Science isn’t linear. Growth isn’t linear. Life isn’t linear. Just because something feels like a step backwards doesn’t necessarily mean it is.
- Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.
- Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
- Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
- Reading: One of the best ways to upgrade human software.
- Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as on a root.
- Real goodness proves itself to be such by a continual desire to be better.
- Remember, every professional was once an amateur, and every master started as a beginner.
- Remember, every professional was once an amateur, and every master started as a beginner. Ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary feats, once they’ve routinized the right habits.
- Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go.
- Remember the growth of a believer is not like a mushroom, but like an oak, which increases slowly indeed, but surely.
- Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress.
- Review each night what you have actually done during the day, and resolve to do still greater things.
- Say to yourself a hundred times every day and mean it with all your heart: I will become more than I am.
- Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable.
- Self growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no higher investment.
- Self-knowledge is the beginning of self-improvement.
- Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.
- Small daily improvements over time lead to stunning results.
- So long as a man is capable of self-renewal he is a living being.
- Someone once told me growth and comfort do not coexist.
- Sometimes adversity creates an environment for good things to grow.
- Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.
- Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers.
- Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.
- Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.
- Sometimes your journey is going to be lonely. When you’re growing and changing, you’ll stop fitting into the old but you’ve yet to attract the new. That’s ok. Those periods of loneliness are the cost of entry. They’re a sign you’re on the right path.
- Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion.
- Sorrow seems sent for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we would teach them to sing.
- Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Discharge your duties faithfully and well. Slug it out one inch at a time, day by day.
- Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
- Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
- Storms make trees take deeper roots.