Growth
678 quotes: 69 by Keith Craft, 609 from other voices.
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- A mind once cultivated will not lie fallow for half an hour.
- A mistake is valuable if you do four things with it: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it
- A nail is not driven to its head by a single stroke, nor is a habit formed by a single attempt.
- A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness.
- A poor appetite for books eventually leads to intellectual malnutrition.
- A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example.
- Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
- Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
- Adversity reveals strength. Comfort reveals weakness.
- Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.
- After all, the purpose of learning isn't to affirm our beliefs; it's to evolve our beliefs.
- Age 80. — Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.
- Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life.
- Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.
- Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
- All coaching is, is taking a player where he can’t take himself.
- All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.
- All growth that is not toward God, is growing to decay.
- All my successes have been built on my failures.
- All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.
- Always associate yourself with people who are better than you.
- Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
- Any man may make a mistake, but none but a fool will continue in it.
- Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
- Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
- Apply yourself everyday to just becoming a little bit better.
- As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions.
- As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without culture, so the mind without cultivation can never produce good fruit.
- As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.
- As you may know, I was basically fired from Apple when I was 30 and was invited to come back 12 years later so that was difficult when it happened but maybe the best thing that could ever happen to me. […] you just move on, life goes on and you learn from it.
- Associate with those who will make a better man of you.
- Attitude is altitude.
- Be appreciative of what's right with your life. In your gratitude is power to make it even better
- Be displeased with what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest, and if thou sayest I have enough, thou perishest.
- Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
- Be honest about where you are at so that you can get to where you want to be.
- Be observing constantly. Stay open-minded. Be eager to learn and improve.