Growth
678 quotes: 69 by Keith Craft, 609 from other voices.
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- Trouble comes to all, but, while it makes some people stronger and better in every way, it submerges others so that they never rise again.
- Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things. God Almighty casts a man down when he wants to chisel him, and the chiseling is always to make him something finer and better than before.
- True self-discovery begins where your comfort zone ends.
- Truths are first clouds, then rain, then harvest and food.
- Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
- Try the thing you don’t think you’re quite ready for.
- Ultimately, there's one investment that supersedes all others: Invest in yourself. Nobody can take away what you've got in yourself, and everybody has potential they haven't used yet.
- Ultimately, there’s one investment that supersedes all others: Invest in yourself.
- Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
- Unless a man works he cannot find out what he is able to do.
- Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.
- Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
- Walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why were here: to evolve as human beings.
- We all have a few failures under our belt. It's what makes us ready for the successes.
- We all want comfort and fulfillment. But fulfillment demands progress, and progress is uncomfortable. Decide which one is higher on your values list, and be willing to pay the price.
- We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
- We are all hypocrites in transition. I am not who I want to be, but I am on the journey there, and thankfully I am not whom I used to be.
- We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
- We are not broken, we are just unfinished.
- We are not raised the first day to the summit of perfection. It is by climbing, not by flying, that we arrive there.
- We can have more than we’ve got because we can become more than we are.
- We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, but it is not best to remain there.
- We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.
- We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
- We cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than in having a clear conscience.
- We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
- We do not have to live the same mistakes over again if we can look at them, learn from them, and build upon them.Audre LordeCommonly attributed
- We don’t so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.
- We find comfort among those who agree with us – growth among those who don’t.
- We have got to use every opportunity to improve individually so we can improve collectively.
- We have never arrived. We are in a constant state of becoming.
- We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
- We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.Samuel SmilesSourced
- We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
- We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.
- We should accustom the mind to keep the best company by introducing it only to the best books.
- We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.
- We should be more anxious that our afflictions should benefit us than that they should be speedily removed from us.
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.