Growth
678 quotes: 69 by Keith Craft, 609 from other voices.
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- Weeds are pulled up by the roots to clear the fields for the growing grain. Why should not mental weeds be pulled up by the roots also, and the mind cleared for growth?
- We’re either getting better or we’re getting worse.
- What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.
- What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task.
- What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
- What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
- What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become ordinary, while to love the noble and the lofty in all minds is to grow into the likeness of that which is noble and lofty.
- What you dream, you can grow.Alice HoffmanSourced
- What you get by reaching your goals is not nearly so important as what you become by reaching them.
- Whatever it is that you’re trying to do with your life, stop being cautious. One of my superpowers is simply that I’m not afraid to be bad at things that I desperately want to be good at.
- When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well he is done for.
- When do you feel smart: when you’re flawless or when you’re learning?
- When God demands more of you, it's because He sees more IN you
- When the oak-tree is felled, the whole forest echoes with it; but a hundred acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
- When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability.
- When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self-indulgence, God "stirs up our nests;" and bids us fly upward.
- When you are finished changing, you are finished.
- When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.Paulo CoelhoSourced
- When you meet with neglect, let it rouse you to exertion, instead of mortifying your pride. Set about lessening those defects which expose you to neglect, and improve those excellences which command attention and respect.
- When you reach the point in your work that you are no longer adding to your store of knowledge or abilities, you are going backward, and it’s time for you to move.
- When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.
- Whetstones are not themselves able to cut, but make iron sharp and capable of cutting.
- While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
- While they are growing up, the young need adults who can suggest principles and values to them. They feel in need of people who can teach by their example, more than by their words, to expend themselves for high ideals.
- While you can buy your way to growth, you absolutely cannot buy your way to greatness.
- Who Dares To Teach Must Never Cease To Learn
- Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
- Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
- Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress and without conflict, no victory.
- Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.
- Work to improve yourself, not prove yourself.
- Years do not make sages; they only make old men.
- You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more.
- You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without ever realizing your true potential.
- You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- You are your best raw material.
- You can advance only by being larger than your present place; and no man is larger than his present place who leaves undone any of the work pertaining to that place.
- You can feel safe, or you can make progress. Choose one.
- You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.
- You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.Alexander Graham BellSourced