Growth
678 quotes: 69 by Keith Craft, 609 from other voices.
Other voices on Growth
- I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
- I don’t tell people they’re okay the way they are. No, I say you could be way more than you are.
- I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.
- I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.
- I never lose. I either win or learn.
- I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better.
- I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.
- I will do today what I can do to enable me to do tomorrow what I can’t do today.
- I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
- If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigor of moral fibre, no beauty of spiritual growth.
- If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
- If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.
- If knowledge is power, then curiosity is the muscle.
- If thou love learning, thou shalt be learned.
- If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
- If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.
- If we only do what we're familiar with, we might miss what we've been made for.
- If we would advance in virtue, we must not neglect little things, for they pave the way to greater.
- If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.
- If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
- If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.
- If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.
- If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
- If you aren’t making mistakes, you aren’t taking enough risks.
- If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a mistake.
- If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.
- If you have no struggles, you’ll have no strength.
- If you never fail, you’re only trying things that are too easy and playing far below your level.
- If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
- If you want to improve, you must be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- If you want to learn something, read about it. If you want to understand something, write about it. If you want to master something, teach it.
- If you want to realize the ideal, make yourself more ideal.
- If you work hard on your job, you can make a living. If you work hard on yourself, you can make a fortune.
- If you would lift me, you must be on higher ground.
- If you’re making mistakes it means you’re out there doing something.
- If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
- If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.
- If you’re not uncomfortable, then you’re probably stuck at an “acceptable level.”Cal NewportCommonly attributed
- If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there?.