Growth
678 quotes: 69 by Keith Craft, 609 from other voices.
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- Be what you are, and become what you are capable of becoming.
- Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
- Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it’s a small price to pay for living a dream.
- Becoming is better than being.
- Bottom line if you want success of any kind: you have to be comfortable being uncomfortable.
- Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.
- By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.
- By seeking and blundering we learn.
- Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.
- Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
- Changing and actually improving are two quite different skills.
- Changing and improving your life requires you to destroy a part of yourself and replace it with a newer, better version. Growth is therefore, by definition, painful to some degree.
- Character building is the greatest object in life.
- Chase results, and maybe you’ll win. Chase growth, and you’ll win every day.
- Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.
- Coaching is making men do what they don’t want, so they can become what they want to be.
- Coaching is unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their growth.
- Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.
- Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.
- Consciousness of our powers augments them.
- Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
- Constant misfortune brings this one blessing: to whom it always assails, it eventually fortifies.
- Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
- Continuous progress is necessary in this age of strenuous effort, and the man who rests on his oars soon finds the tide sweeping him backward. Keep pushing ahead.
- Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
- Courage is a virtue that the young cannot spare; to lose it is to grow old before the time; it is better to make a thousand mistakes and suffer a thousand reverses than to refuse the battle.
- Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.
- Cultivate not only the cornfields of your mind, but the pleasure-grounds also.
- Cultivation is as necessary to the mind as food to the body.
- Darkness will teach you how to see. Falling will teach you how to rise.
- Denial is the ultimate comfort zone.
- Develop into a lifelong self-learner through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.
- Difficulties are footholds toward maturity.
- Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
- Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.
- Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be; when an opportunity to be more than you are now is presented and you feel impelled toward it, take it.
- Do what you know and perception is converted into character.
- Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.
- Don’t be afraid to go for positions, jobs or take on clients just outside of your knowledge base. It’s when you’re uncomfortable that you learn and grow the most.
- Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.