Growth Quotes

• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• Most of our suffering comes from sin and stupidity; it is, nevertheless, very real, and growth can occur with real repentance. But the highest source of suffering appears to be reserved for the innocent who undergo divine tutorial training.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Real, Stupidity, Training

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• This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.

  Penelope Spheeris

  Inspirational, Teenage, Marijuana

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• At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer (1996). “This Earth of Mankind”, p.87, Penguin

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• But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people's entry into the main current of world-events.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Life, People, Achievement

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal, University of the Punjab. Dept. of Iqbal Studies, University of the Punjab (1982). “Iqbal centenary papers”

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• The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.

  Karl Rove

  Country, Team, Half

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• Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Urden

  R. A. Salvatore

  Drizzt Do Urden, Drizzt, Rooted

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• We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

  Frank A. Clark

  Spiritual, Adversity, Christian Inspirational

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  Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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  All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Change, Positive, Organization

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• Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Life, Motivational, Death

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.23, Shambhala Publications

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• I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Faith

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• Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

  Napoleon Hill

  Strength, Success, Yoga

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons”, p.633, Simon and Schuster

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  Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

  Bruce Lee

  Children, Greatness, Organization

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Thinking is growth; we cannot think without growing.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Thinking, Growing

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• Every new level of growth we hope to experience as leaders calls for a new level of change. You cannot have one without the other. If you want to be a better leader, get ready to make some trades.

  John C. Maxwell

  Change, Leader, Levels

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.142, Harper Collins

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• For things to change, you have to change. For things to be different, you have to be different. Before financial success can occur personal growth must occur.

  Jim Rohn

  Change, Different, Financial

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• Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness

  Jean Vanier

  Love Yourself, Learning, Acceptance

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• Growth is the only evidence of life.

  John Henry Newman

  Life, Change, Positive

  John Henry Newman (2016). “Apologia pro Vita Sua”, p.67, John Henry Newman

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• If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

  John C. Maxwell

  Change, Positive, Courage

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• What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

  Geneen Roth

  Motivational, Love Yourself, Self Love

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2012

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• One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life, Motivational, Fear

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• In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.

  Les Brown

  Success, Achievement, Important

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  With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Positive, Regret

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 29, 2015

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• Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Motivational, Courage, Regret

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