Growth
678 quotes: 69 by Keith Craft, 609 from other voices.
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- If you're the smartest one in your group, you need to get a new group.
- I’m haunted by my future goals, not my past failures. I’m haunted by what I may still become. I’m haunted by my own continued thirst for evolution.
- Imperfections cling to a man, which, if he wait till he have brushed off entirely, he will spin for ever on his axis, advancing nowhither.
- Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others.
- In a day, when you don’t come across any problems – you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.
- In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow.
- In a narrow circle the mind grows narrow; the more a man expands, the larger his aims.
- In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.
- In companionship with the good, growing natures will always find their best nourishment; while companionship with the bad will only be fruitful in mischief.
- In life we don’t get what we want, we get in life what we are. If we want more we have to be able to be more, in order to be more you have to face rejection.
- In order to be successful in any kind of undertaking, I think the main thing is for one to grow to the point where he completely forgets himself; that is, to lose himself in a great cause.
- In the growth mindset, talent is something you build on and develop, not something you simply display to the world.
- In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain. Either you already reach a higher point today, or you exercise your strength in order to be able to climb higher tomorrow.
- Invest in as much of yourself as you can, you are your own biggest asset by far.
- Investing in yourself is the most important investment you will ever make in your life... There's no financial investment that will ever match it, because if you develop more skill, more ability, more insight, more capacity, that's what is going to really provide economic freedom... it's those skill sets that really make that happen.
- It is a great folly not to part with your own faults, which is possible, but to try instead to escape from other people's faults, which is impossible.
- It is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities but difficulties, that make men.
- It is not how much you have learned, but how much you have absorbed in what you have learned.
- It is not the so-called blessings of life, its sunshine and calm and pleasant experiences that make men, but its rugged experiences, its storms and tempests and trials. Early adversity is often a blessing in disguise.
- It is our talents rusting unused within us that secrete the poison of self-doubt into our bloodstream.
- It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it can never be reached.
- It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.
- It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
- It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation and then go to bed," is the absurdest of all maxims. "Keep up a reputation or go to bed," would be nearer the truth.
- It is when I struggle that I strengthen. It is when challenged to my core that I learn the depth of who I am.
- It must either go forward or fall behind; to stand still is impossible.
- It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.
- It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.
- Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.
- It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.
- Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.Walter ScottSourced
- Joys are our wings, sorrows are our spurs.
- Just as cherry, plum, peach and damson blossoms all possess their own unique qualities, each person is unique. We cannot become someone else. The important thing is that we live true to ourselves and cause the great flower of our lives to blossom.
- Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.
- Knowledge is the compound interest of curiosity.
- Leaders aren't born they are made, and they are made like anything else, through hard work and that's the price we will have to pay to achieve that goal or any goal.
- Lean into (not away from) what’s making you uncomfortable.
- Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.
- Learn to convert the discomfort of discipline into the satisfaction of personal growth.
- Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.