Growth Quotes - Page 36

• The passion for stretching yourself and sticking to it, even (or especially) when it's not going well, is the hallmark of the growth mindset.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Passion, Mindset, Hallmark

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.7, Random House

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• Personal growth can be painful, because it can make us feel ashamed and humiliated to face our own darkness. But our spiritual goal is the journey out of fear-based, painful mental habit patterns, to those of love and peace.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Journey, Goal

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• The US economy today is in really bad shape. Our economic growth is minimal, our regulatory burden is horrific, taxes are high, businessmen are not investing in growth, and consumers and government are loaded up with debt.

  Yaron Brook

  Government, Economy Today, Investing

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• Children should be allowed to express themselves in whatever way they wish without anybody judging them because it is an important part of their growth... Society always has something to learn when it comes to the way we judge each other, label each other. We have far to go.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Judging, Wish

  "Angelina Jolie defends daughter Shiloh's style" by Christine Kearney, www.reuters.com. July 11, 2010.

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• We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.

  Mitsugi Saotome

  Real Joy, Challenges, Spiritual Community

  Mitsugi Saotome (1993). “Aikido and the Harmony of Nature”, p.340, Shambhala Publications

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• Don't push growth; remove the factors limiting growth.

  Peter Senge

  Factors, Remove

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• People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth.

  Bruce Lee

  People, Trying, Holding On

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.157, Tuttle Publishing

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• Asset-heavy businesses generally earn low rates of return - rates that often barely provide enough capital to fund the inflationary needs of the existing business, with nothing left over for real growth, for distribution to owners, or for acquisition of new businesses

  Warren Buffett

  Real, Return, Acquisition

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• Commercial real estate always trails residential, and as residential growth flourishes, shopping centers flourish and service the communities, and jobs come out.

  Johnny Isakson

  Jobs, Real, Shopping

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• The problem right now is jobs. The problem right now is the economy and economic growth.

  Robert Reich

  Jobs, Problem, Economic

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• In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking down others. Like a gap in the forest when a giant tree falls, new growth will rush in. Gradually, the asphalt jungle will give way to a real one.

  Alan Weisman

  Real, Fall, America

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• In the end we won't be judged as a society solely by our growth statistics or economic activity graphs. We will be judged by the quality of the life that we foster for all members of the community and the compassion we show for the disadvantaged.

  Carmen Lawrence

  Compassion, Community, Quality

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• I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people's minds and souls.

  Sylvia Plath

  Real, Moving, Book

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.296, Faber & Faber

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• God has challenged me to grow in my knowledge of Him but I have to CHOOSE whether or not to display this growth through my actions.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Action, Grows, Display

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 19, 2013

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• A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspirational, Religious, Self

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.103, Penguin

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• If Jesus Christ is the head of the church and hence the source and goal of its entire life, true growth is only possible in obedience to Him. Conversely, if the church becomes detached from Jesus Christ and His Word, it cannot grow however active and successful it may seem to be.

  Os Guinness

  Jesus, Successful, Goal

  Os Guinness (1993). “Dining with the Devil: The Megachurch Movement Flirts with Modernity”, p.39, Baker Books

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• We often forget that growth requires sacrifice.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Sacrifice, Forget

  Villoldo Ph.D., Alberto (2010). “Illumination”, p.85, Hay House, Inc

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• The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

  Carl Jung

  Achievement, Mind, Steps

  "Contributions to Analytical Psychology". Book by Carl Jung, p. 340, 1928.

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• Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.

  James Arthur Ray

  Reflection, Results, Proportion

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• The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Enemy, Devil

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• There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Type, Tension, Constructive

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.89, Beacon Press

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• Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

  Mark Twain

  Anniversary, Marriage, Wedding

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.248, Courier Corporation

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• See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Opportunity, Understanding, Inevitable Change

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• If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it. Why? Because it does. Growth doesn't just happen--not for me, not for you, not for anybody. You HAVE TO go after it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Opportunity, Doe, Needs

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• You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

  J. Paul Getty

  Risk, Essentials, Borrowed Money

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