Growth
678 quotes: 69 by Keith Craft, 609 from other voices.
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- The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.Lewis DuncombeCommonly attributed
- The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.
- The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
- The man who graduates... today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
- The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
- The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.
- The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
- The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.
- The mistake is not being wrong. The mistakes is staying wrong.
- The more you do, the more you fail. The more you fail, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.
- The more you say the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
- The more you seek the uncomfortable, the more you will become comfortable.
- The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born — that there is a genetic factor to leadership.
- The most important, difficult and rewarding thing to work on is yourself.
- The most important investment you can make is in yourself.
- The most important question to ask on the job is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'
- The most successful people in life are the ones who ask questions. They're always learning. They're always growing. They're always pushing.
- The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'
- The number one purpose in life, is to better oneself.
- The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
- The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.
- The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.Tony RobbinsCommonly attributed
- The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.John PowellSourced
- The only thing you have in your life is time. If you invest that time in yourself to have great experiences that are going to enrich you, then you can’t possibly lose.
- The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.Alan WattsSourced
- The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it’s not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.
- The path of least resistance will never make you proud.
- The purpose of coaching is to close the gap between potential and performance.
- The rare people who do become truly exceptional at something do so not because they believe they are exceptional. On the contrary, they become amazing because they’re obsessed with improvement.
- The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
- The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves.
- The road to the Olympics leads — in the end — to the best within us.
- The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
- The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
- The spiritual journey is one of constant transformation. In order to grow, you must give up the struggle to remain the same, and learn to embrace change at all times.
- The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
- The trials you encounter will introduce you to your strengths.
- The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
- The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
- The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.