Growth
678 quotes: 69 by Keith Craft, 609 from other voices.
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- Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.
- For things to change, YOU have to change. For things to get better, YOU have to get better. For things to improve, YOU have to improve. When YOU grow, EVERYTHING in your life grows with you.
- For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.
- From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
- Get better today than you were yesterday.
- Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.
- God makes the life fertile by disappointments, as he makes the ground fertile by frosts.
- Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece – by thought, choice, courage, and determination.
- Graduation is not the end of education, as many seem to think, but the beginning. The world lies before you in exuberant fruitfulness — reach out for its delights.
- Great things never came from comfort zones.
- Grow into the habit of talking about the bright side of life.
- Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.
- Grow spiritually and help others to do so; it is the meaning of life.
- Grow your own cherries, but don't sing your own praises.
- Growth comes at the point of resistance. We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.
- Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.Julia CameronSourced
- Growth is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.
- Growth is slow but collapse is rapid.SenecaCommonly attributed
- Growth is uncomfortable. Not growing is worse.
- Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
- Habits are the compound interest of self-improvement
- Hard times produce your greatest gifts.
- Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off.
- Has it never occurred to us, when surrounded by sorrows, that they may be sent to us only for our instruction, as we darken the cages of birds when we wish to teach them to sing?
- Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
- He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, and whose spirit is entering into living peace.
- He who ceases to grow greater grows smaller.
- He who does not advance falls backward.
- He who moves not forward goes backward! A capital saying!Johann Wolfgang von GoetheCommonly attributed
- He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
- Help people reach their full potential. Catch them doing something right.
- How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seed-time of character?
- How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.
- I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.
- I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it.
- I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.
- I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself whatever he pleases, except a great poet.
- I can do more. I can grow. I can become a bigger and better human being.
- I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
- I do not like to repeat successes, I like to go on to other things.