Growth
678 quotes: 69 by Keith Craft, 609 from other voices.
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- The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.
- The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
- The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease.
- The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
- There are but three classes of men, the retrograde, the stationary, and the progressive.
- There are no foolish questions, and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.
- There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don't learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.
- There is a difference between not knowing and not knowing yet.
- There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance.
- There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
- There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.
- There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
- There is nothing the body suffers that the soul may not profit by.
- There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus.
- There’s no starting over, only getting up to begin again.
- There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.Aldous HuxleySourced
- There's only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience.
- Think progress, not perfection.Ryan HolidayCommonly attributed
- This day’s done and there’s a new one coming tomorrow, with no mistakes in it yet, as you used to say yourself.
- Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
- Those who keep learning, will keep rising in life.
- Those who make no mistakes are making the biggest mistakes of all — they are attempting nothing new.Anthony de MelloSourced
- Those with the growth mindset found setbacks motivating. They’re informative. They’re a wake-up call.
- Thus we understand how he who thinks he can develops the power that can.
- Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth.
- To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.
- To achieve something you have never achieved before you must become someone you have never been.
- To discover blindspots, build an inner circle that will give you honest feedback.
- To hear always, to think always, to learn always, it is thus that we live truly; he who aspires to nothing, and learns nothing, is not worthy of living.
- To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
- To know you are useful, and realize that you are needed, is a great stimulus to growth.
- To learn is to be young, however old.
- To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.
- To supply a thought is mental massage; but to evolve a thought of your own is an achievement. Thinking is a brain exercise — and no faculty grows save as it is exercised.
- To teach is to learn twice.
- To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.
- Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.
- Today, you’ve got a decision to make. You’re gonna get better or you’re gonna get worse, but you’re not gonna stay the same. Which will it be?
- Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.