Growth
678 quotes: 69 by Keith Craft, 609 from other voices.
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- Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
- Success is achieved by developing our strengths, not by eliminating our weaknesses.
- Surround yourself with people only who are going to take you higher.
- Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
- Take pride in how far you’ve come. Have faith in how far you can go. But don’t forget to enjoy the journey.
- Take the risk. If you succeed you’ll be happy. If you fail you’ll be wiser.
- Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.
- Thank God, we do not have to remain as we once were, but can progress upwards, indefinitely, for there is no limit to our upward climb.
- The amount of growth you will experience in your life depends on how much uncertainty you can handle.
- The athlete who wishes to get strong must make use of the strength he has, and the more he gives the more he will get.
- The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
- The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths.
- The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.
- The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
- The best investment you can make is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.
- The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
- The better a man is, the more mistakes will he make - for the more new things he will try.
- The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.
- The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
- The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.
- The church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones, a nursery for the care of weak ones, a hospital for the healing of those who need assiduous care.
- The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you.
- The desire to belong often overpowers the desire to improve.
- The easiest and noblest way is not to be crushing others, but to be improving yourselves.
- The essential difference between a good and a bad education is this, that the former draws on the child to learn by making it sweet to him; the latter drives the child to learn, by making it sour to him if he does not.
- The extent of the struggle determines the extent of the growth. The obstacle is an advantage, not adversity. The enemy is any perception that prevents us from seeing this.
- The fellow who sits still and does what he is told will never be told to do big things.
- The firefly only shines when on the wing; so is it with the mind; when once we rest, we darken.
- The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
- The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.
- The fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you’ll be judged. The growth mindset makes you concerned with improving.
- The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.Elbert HubbardSourced
- The greatest reward is not what we receive for our labor, but what we become by it.
- The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.
- The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
- The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.
- The important thing in my view is not to pin the blame for a mistake on somebody, but rather to find out what caused the mistake.Akio MoritaSourced
- The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.