Growth Quotes - Page 30

• How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ignorance, Use, Remember

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.

  William Coperthwaite

  Jesus, Reading, Mean

  William Coperthwaite, John Saltmarsh (2007). “A Handmade Life: In Search of Simplicity”, p.13, Chelsea Green Publishing

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• Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.

  Andy Hargreaves

  Leadership, Learning, Humans

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• Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude

  Mike Yaconelli

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Reality

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• We are all gifts to each other, and my own growth as a leader has shown me again and again that the most rewarding experiences come from my relationships.

  Michael Dell

  Leader, Again And Again, Rewarding Experiences

  "6 Surefire Ways to Stay Constantly Motivated" by Jonathan Long, www.entrepreneur.com. June 27, 2016.

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• Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it

  Steve Pavlina

  Sacrifice, Ifs, Security

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• Remember, Those who have the gift of faith are growth-oriented, goal-oriented, optimistic, and confident. – C. Peter Wagner.

  Phil Pringle

  Optimistic, Goal, Remember

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• Sometimes we think we're a little too gifted to show up, yo uknow. But none of us truly is...By avoiding risk we really risk what's most important in life---reaching toward growth, our potential, and a true contribution to a common good.

  Max De Pree

  Thinking, Risk, Important

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• Be ruthless in one important area: Yourself. Be ruthless about your commitment to Christ. Be ruthless about your intellectual growth. Be ruthless about finishing well. One of the biggest areas we should be ruthless about is our time. How much time do you spend complaining about your problems to people who can't help you solve them? How much time do you talk when you should be doing? When it comes to others, be gracious. But when it comes to you and your time, be ruthless.

  Phil Cooke

  Commitment, People, Intellectual

  "Maybe It’s Time Christians Learned These “Non-Christian” Habits" by Phil Cooke, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2013.

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• If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today. The greatest periods of growth, particularly the first-century growth, took place in adversarial cultures. We are not hindered by external forces; we are hindered by our own lack of commitment and selflessness.

  Thom S. Rainer

  Commitment, Church Today, Culture

  "“I Am A Church Member” – A Conversation with Thom Rainer". Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. April 25, 2013.

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• Muslims all over the world are looking with high expectations toward the ummah community in the United States and Canada. Its dynamism, fresh approach, enlightened scholarship and sheer growth is their hope for an Islamic renaissance worldwide.

  Murad Wilfried Hofmann

  Islamic, Expectations, Community

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• Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.

  Malidoma Patrice Some

  Soul, Earth, Remember

  Malidoma Patrice Some (1997). “Ritual: Power, Healing and Community”, p.22, Penguin

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• Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.

  Caroline Pratt

  Children, Growing Up, Looks

  Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.95, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Relationships are part of a vast plan for our enlightenment, the Holy Spirit's blueprint by which each individual soul is led to greater awareness and expanded love. Relationships are the Holy Spirit's laboratories in which he brings together people who have the maximal opportunity for mutual growth.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Anxiety is the experience of growth itself. In any endeavor, how do you feel when you go from one stage to the next? The answer: You feel anxious. Anxiety that is denied makes us ill; anxiety that is fully confronted and fully lived through converts itself into joy, security, strength, centeredness, and character. The practical formula: Go where the pain is.

  Peter Koestenbaum

  Pain, Character, Joy

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• We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.

  Vince Lombardi

  Hero, Character, Men

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.35, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. There is no more to life than this.
  In other words, we are here to love.

  Sara Wiseman

  Soul, Purpose, Life Is

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• Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

  Barack Obama

  Running, Life Changing, Losing

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• Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Remember, Life Is, Signs Of Life

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1978, Manonmani Publishers

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• You are Life passing through your body, passing through your mind, passing through your soul. Once you find that out, not with logic, not with the intellect, but because you can feel that Life-you find out that you are the force that makes the flowers open and close, that makes the hummingbird fly from flower to flower. You find out that you are in every tree, and you are in every animal, vegetable, and rock. You are that force that moves the wind and breathes through your body. The whole universe is a living being that is moved by that force, and that is what you are. You are Life.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Flower, Moving, Animal

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• Relationships that begin in passion's raging fire often end in the coldest ashes.

  Deepak Chopra

  Passion, Fire, Ashes

  Deepak Chopra (2008). “Path To Love: Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Love You Need”, p.227, Random House

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• If I don't show the world growth, how are we going to grow?

  Jay-Z

  World, Shows, Grows

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• I love that because that's what I'm supposed to be doing - whether it's accepted b everybody or not. I'm supposed to be pushing that envelope and trying new things. And people are supposed to say, Hov, you might have went too far.

  Jay-Z

  People, Trying, Might

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• All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Progress, Degradation, Well Being

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3533, Manonmani Publishers

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• Welcome the back talk, because it's completely natural and normal. It's actually a sign that the new idea you've planted in your mind is taking root.

  Gay Hendricks

  Ideas, Roots, Mind

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