Quotation Explorer - 'Growth'

Growth or stagnation? There is no in-between. Life always seeks more of itself and death picks up the slack. - Christopher Babson
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.
It’s taken years, but part of my own personal growth has involved deciding that I can learn something from even the most annoying person. - Auliq Ice
Inability to accept positive change is a hindrance to growth. - Amitava Chowdhury
If we have no heretics we must invent them, for heresy is essential to health and growth. - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Growth is ugly, it's hideous, it's all the things we don't like but my god, once you walk through the fire of confusion you will feel burning passion within your flame. - Nikki Rowe
Pain in the body is a clear indication, Something in the energy fields are blocking inner growth. - Nikki Rowe
Years ago this was just a place where I was assigned to work. Today looking at this place represents the opportunity that God allowed me to see the beauty of His works. The difference in then and now - I guess our views are a representative of our growth. Thankful. - Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
Increase answers to growth - Sunday Adelaja
The really dramatic growth happens when a startup only has three of four people, so only three or four people see that, whereas tens of thousands see business as it's practiced by Boeing or Philip Morris. - Jessica Livingston
Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight. - Joan D. Chittister
Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. - Bo Bennett
Art tends toward balance, order, judgment of relative values, the laws of growth, the economy of living very good things for anyone to be interested in. - Robert Henri
People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase is practically inevitable. - Sunday Adelaja
(T)he increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts. - Galileo Galilei
A person is worth to be called the functional head who does not mind giving credit to the right brain for an organisational growth; otherwise there are innumerable top-hierarchical people roaming all around by keeping an empty or junk box above on their shoulders. - Anuj Somany
Every failure is an opportunity for your personal growth. - Sivaprakash Sidhu
truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. - Leo Tolstoy
You told me once that too much good in a person's life will stunt their growth. You said pain is necessary, because in order for a person to succeed, they must first learn to conquer adversity. And that's what you do... you deliver adversity where you see fit. - Colleen Hoover
There is no growth in comfort, only complacency. True growth requires life's challenges to reveal and exercise our full potential. - Dionna L. Hayden
True leaders fail fast and often in order to learn what's necessary to reach the next level of growth and advancement - Lillian Gregory
Management, a science? Of course not, it's just a waste-paper basket full of recipes which provided the dish of the day during a few years of plenty and economic growth. Now the recipes are inappropriate and the companies which persist in following them will disappear. - Leon Courville
Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope. - Michel O'Brien
There is a wide world out there, my friend, full of pain, but filled with joy as well. The former keeps you on the path of growth, and the latter makes the journey tolerable.
One who is hungry for growth, doesn't requires motivation and training.. He just needs an opportunity... - honeya
The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. - Sarah Orne Jewett
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. - Andy Goldsworthy
Our churches are full of people during work hours, in the morning, at noon, in the evening praying, instead of being in the factories, libraries, and laboratories, facilitating economic growth. - Sunday Adelaja
Personal growth is the most powerful force for change on earth. I believe that personal growth can help anyone change anything. - Derric Yuh Ndim
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life. - Carl Rogers
Think of something, Oh yes! Think of something. Your life must not be in retardation so think of something! Think of growth for that is the whole essence of life! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow. - Coco J. Ginger
Every interaction presents an opportunity for growth, one of the keys to our limitless potential. - Simon Boylan
Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it. - Andy Rooney
Eugenics has always been the escape valve of single payer socialized medicine. Havelock Ellis was writing about them as one and the same prior to the fin-de-siecle. Culling out of control population growth and the economic drain of the incurably sick has always been a part of socialized medicine. - A.E. Samaan
LIBERTY, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. - George Washington
All hardships are seeds of growth. Your life will blossom when the lesson is complete. But remember, you were ALWAYS beautiful from beginning to full bloom. - Karen A. Baquiran
If you want to know the one thing that will allow you to grow faster than anything else, it is the belief that you may be wrong about absolutely everything you believe. When you can question your beliefs at every possible turn, your opportunities for growth expand exponentially. - Kelle Sparta
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong. - Mandy Hale
Anyone who believes that exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist. - Kenneth E. Boulding
Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest. - Ralph W. Sockman
Hunting, works for conservation like slavery works for economic growth. A guaranteed but morally awful way to achieve a goal. - Peter Allison
. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credulity. - Edward Clodd
Growth is one of the most natural process of life - Sunday Adelaja
Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change.Drizzt Do'Urden - R.A. Salvatore
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. - Henry Miller
Growth is the sum of small efforts repeated daily. Commit yourself to take 5 DAILY ACTIONS that would move your goal towards completion. - Farshad Asl
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. - Napoleon Hill
I believe the difficulty that lies in growth, is the struggle of letting go of all you know to learn about the unknown. When in all actuality the unknown that you're learning about is yourself. - Turcois Ominek
The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people. - M. Scott Peck
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge every adversity contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth. - Roy T. Bennett
Sunlight reflecting from rippled windows greatly accelerates plant growth by up to three times normal rates. - Steven Magee
We need to simplify life. Do you think grass thinks about who trod on it yesterday? No... It just continues to grow. And so should you. You cannot control who treads on you, but you do control your own growth. Don't ever let others inhibit you! - Tony Curl
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself. - Robert Henri
The most successful businesses have leaders that see the correlation between customer service and sales… not as separate departments, but as complimentary components for growth. - Steve Maraboli
As an entrepreneur you own your business, you expand your brand, you increase your impact, you live with no excuses, and you enjoy your intentional growth daily. - Farshad Asl
Powerful words, a soft embrace, & facial expression that can warm your heart. Growth shows you to appreciate what you didn't before. - April Mae Monterrosa
I began to have an idea of my life, not as the slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know. - Joanna Field
On the surface, reality may appear the same each day, but in essence, we are new every moment of our lives. The potential for change and growth is unlimited if we allow ourselves to surrender to the flow. - Dorit Brauer
While those who continuously get themselves the supply of growth, smile through life. - Sunday Adelaja
Have you failed today? If not, you might not be trying hard enough. Failure is a part of growth, a stepping stone towards success. In its own right it is a small victory and should be celebrated as such. So I ask you again, have you failed today? - Shane E. Bryan
People who gives excuses of lack of growth simply don’t know how to apply the principle of increase - Sunday Adelaja
Skills or professionalism is another factor of growth - Sunday Adelaja
The most painful moments and memories eventually lead to the greatest strengths and growth in life. - Kemi Sogunle
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. - Ronald Reagan
Everything that happens in life is there to aid our spiritual growth. - M. Scott Peck
We cannot expect to grow if we are too afraid or unwilling to change and face challenges. When we exit our everyday, mundane lifestyles to do something different we can experience growth, undiscovered strength, and new abilities within ourselves. - Ashley Ormon
We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come. - Dallin H. Oaks
The only reason that people 'Choose' to go backwards is because they let their mind take control. Their mind points them in that direction because it's convenient. If we learn to quiet the mind the soul has a way of painting the bigger picture for taking the right action into growth. - Matthew Donnelly
Patience, more than the ability to bear pains or endure waiting, is to be calm no matter what happens constantly take action to turn it to positive growth opportunities and have faith to believe that it will all work out in the end while you are waiting. - Roy T. Bennett
Growth occurs unabated free of obstacles. - Phil Wohl
Embrace the uncertainty; there is either a massive growth or catastrophic destruction for you lying underneath, there comes its joy. - Alper Durukan
One of the principles of increase that provide enough demand for growth is vision - Sunday Adelaja
If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation. - Xenophon
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey
Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.
People interested in change and personal development need larger and larger environments in which to live. Their views expand. Their perspectives broaden. Their interests change. They seek bigger challenges. And they need people in their lives who will make room for their growth. - Steve Goodier
Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace. - Widad Akreyi
As an instructor, my goal has always been to use Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to help our students achieve their goals, whatever the case may be. I have yet to find a better vehicle for growth, and the moment I do I will certainly pursue it with the rivaled fervor that I approached Jiu Jitsu. - Chris Matakas
What is most important and valuable about the home as a base for children's growth into the world is not that it is a better school than the schools, but that it isn't a school at all. - John Holt
There’s little growth and progression without learning and reflection - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Let us see what tomorrow will bring us? Will it be joy and triumph, chaos and glory, love and growth, or victory and success? - Ana Monnar
A limited vision will only see that there is a choice between reliving the past, staying with the present or embracing the future. A spiritual person of faith doesn't make choices based on time frames. We choose based on what will bring us the most growth. - Shannon L. Alder
...distinction between growth and development. Aggregate growth in national economic indicators need not mean an improved life for the majority of the people. - Raewyn Connell and Nour Dados
The obstacle in spritual growth is not ignorance of self, it is the illusion of self. - Aditya Ajmera
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. - Brooks Atkinson
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. - George Eliot
For growth to happen it is necessary to get your BUT out of the way. - Jay Perry
The difficulties in life are vital for our personal growth and well-being. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The greater the fear, the greater the opportunity for growth. - Janice Anderson
We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. - Frank Clark
Every difficulty is an opportunity for personal growth. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Growth is grace. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Life demands growth - Sunday Adelaja
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years. - Alexander Graham Bell
A Large-Scale Revolution can not happen without a higher-awareness to seek Personal Growth on an individual level. - Matthew Donnelly
Everything big, once started little. Discipline yourself and work to become an excellent person at what you want. Stretch yourself daily and go a little further than yesterday. Growth is the key to winning success. - Mark LaMoure
The foundation of all long-term success lies in building a Resilient and Growth oriented MINDSET. - Tony Dovale
The journey of growth, search for the secret has always been within, the simpler we make it, the better it gets. - Rob Martin
When you are avoiding your pain you are really only avoiding your growth. - Bryant McGill
Home is the nesting ground for goodness to spring forth. Schools, churches and society influences but home is essential in the development and growth process. - Eveth Colley
Don't wait for the right conditions. All you need for your growth is available to you in this moment - Radhe Maa
The most tried and true way to put God first is to read His Word, the Bible, and obey it. There are no shortcuts to spiritual growth. - Jim George
It is essential for genetic material to be able to make exact copies of itself; otherwise growth would produce disorder, life could not originate, and favourable forms would not be perpetuated by natural selection. - Maurice Wilkins
A child's behavior we see on the surface is the reflection of the feelings that are rooted underneath. We can use topical treatments to try to shape what the behavior looks like, but if we really want things to change, we need to address the roots. Nourish the roots, see the growth. - Kelly Bartlett
Seeds are proof that the greatest growth takes place in the dark. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I believe we could both maintain growth and increase, both in quality and quantity - Sunday Adelaja
What's good about growth? Why is it intrinsically good? - Yahya Madra
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. - Pearl S. Buck
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers. - Lewis Thomas
if ethics is not the engine of success, in the train of growth, it sure is a guard, with a flag, which may be green, or at times red - Priyavrat Thareja
Individuals who are focused on becoming better are individuals not easily offended. You can only offend those who are not on a path of constant growth and enlightenment. - C. JoyBell C.
Jiu Jitsu is a vehicle for self-discovery and growth. It reminds me of my ego, of my insecurities, and of my shortcomings. - Chris Matakas
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Faith in Christ is a one-time decision that leads to a lifetime of growth. - Stephen Caldwell
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we live. - Mortimer Adler
Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
A person can't heal as long as they are deflecting and blaming. One must accept responsibility for their own actions and make the shift necessary for growth. - Sanjo Jendayi
The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY. - Compton Gage
"The key to growth is the introductionof higher dimensions of consciousnessinto our awareness. - Lao Tzu
Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience. - Neville Goddard
Generation is the Important factor,of the Growth of Ideas. - Fahad Rashiq
Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth. - Roy Bennett
We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode. - Jeff Bezos
If there's going to be pain anyway, I'd rather it be the pain of growth rather than the pain of staying stuck. - Suzette Hinton
IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices. - Ambrose Bierce
In human life, art may arise from almost any activity, and once it does so, it is launched on a long road of exploration, invention, freedom to the limits of extravagance, interference to the point of frustration, finally discipline, controlling constant change and growth. - Susanne Langer
Pain is nothing but growth waiting for us to give it permission to grow us up. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
The art of effective leadership is about navigating the dynamics of growth and success… holding a vision and leading a team, but arriving at the same time. - Steve Maraboli
The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. - Harvey S. Firestone
If an employee could see as what quality of his is being praised by the employer, he would never be able to brag about his professional growth & ever boast of his long tenure spent in that organisation. - Anuj Somany
When we are in touch with our creativity, through passion and excitement, we always put ourselves in the most expansive state of consciousness. Fear slows down our development, while love supports a rapid growth. - Raphael Zernoff
What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge. - Orrin Woodward
It is easy to find the problem. Knowing the difference between critique and criticism is the solution. Condition your rawhide for growth. (Either way). - JT Sanz
We are seeds as well as parasites to the earth. We can either give or take, depending on our perception of growth. - Zephyr McIntyre
For young adults,the growth from silly to serious can be very fast, indeed. - Dean Cumings
The truth is that as you are building your small business, still that small business needs to experience some form of increase and growth - Sunday Adelaja
Wolves directly affect the entire ecosystem, not just moose populations, their main prey, because less moose equals more tree growth - Rolf Peterson
A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth. - Charles Darwin
If you want to go to places worth going, you have to be open to personal growth. No matter how much your job pays you, if it doesn’t offer you the opportunity to grow, your efforts would only go to waste. There are really just some things that money can’t buy. Never stop learning! - Kevin J. Donaldson
Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. - Joanna Russ
A Truthful Evaluation Of Yourself Gives Feedback For Growth and Success - Brenda Johnson Padgitt
I thought having a chronic illness would make my life detour in ways I didn't want to accept, but I've learnt that have a chronic illness made the only detours that are worth the growth. - Nikki Rowe
When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one. - Paul Brunton
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. - Frank A. Clark
Growth of human hair is the absolute blessing for a barber - Munia Khan
The things we earnestly chased like they are inevitable; now we see them and pass by....that's what i call GROWTH. Some will take 20 yrs to know this growth but those that feed on the Word have instant growth and prosperity. God be praised - Kingsley ofosu-Ampong
Growth can't be constrained when the journey unfolds naturally and we are open to possibility and unfamiliar paths. - Bridget Geegan Blanton
Recognition of the value of time, the change in our attitude to time, time management and time consciousness translate into economic growth or increase in GDP. - Sunday Adelaja
If we give the supply of growth, self-improvement, self-education, into our lives, life would favour us - Sunday Adelaja
Science & Love have progressed "either" ways with growth of violence! - Vishwanath S J
Hold a retrospective approach in your spirit to figure out your loopholes and try to forge out for filling them for a lucrative self growth - Anshul Dubey
there is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The blank page is the great equalizer and grand opportunity for continued learning and growth. - K.J. Kilton
Spiritual growth and creativity are two sides of the same coin. - Lada Ray
Spiritual growth is the only real growth - Radhe Maa
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. - George Washington
There is no greater crime than a crime against humanity. There is no greater crime against humanity than usury. The greatest violence, and the greatest threat to humanity, is the growth of MONEY. - Compton Gage
Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do. - Shannon L. Alder
For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction. - Cynthia Occelli
These places I traveled through, they were a lot like the people I knew. Some abodes I muddled about for a day or two, others entertained my thoughts for a year or a few. Each place and person gave me wisdom or growth, and, if I was lucky, sometimes I'd get both. - Hubert Martin
To understand how growth, aging and death works, you must understand the radiation environment. - Steven Magee
The growth of my love story had been gradual but my success had always existed and both coupled together formed a deadly combination that was detrimental to our love. I wanted people to love me. She wanted them to leave her alone. - Faraaz Kazi
Growth in the number of humans is associated with decline in humanity. - Meeta Ahluwalia
Leadership is about movement and growth. - Mark Sanborn
If there's going to be pain anyway, I'd rather it be the pain of growth than the pain of staying stuck. - Suzette Hinton
Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism - Yahya Mohamed
Personal growth centers on two types of people, the ones we like and the ones that drive us crazy. - Auliq Ice
I did something the other day that not many have been taught. I prayed for those who hurt me, to eventually find there way- not because they deserve it but because i deserve the growth. - Nikki Rowe
There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer
I'd rather identify with a past of infinite growth, than a past which hinders it. - Michelle Cruz-Rosado
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.
Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ... - Gary Rohrmayer
I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. - Emily Carr
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. - Gail Sheehy
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. - Calvin Coolidge
Whether rich or poor, following the Should Life will lead to heartache and struggle. Leading your life will lead to places you never thought you'd be, people you never thought you'd meet, knowledge you never thought you'd gain, and a life of adventure and growth. Lead your life; not the Should Life. - Tirumalai S. Srivatsan
The growth of the imagination demands windows-windows through which we can look out at the world and windows through which we can look into ourselves. The old stories were windows in just this way. - Katherine Paterson
Like the bud of a flower, change forces you to surrender to growth. It makes you vulnerable. It requires you to enlarge, expand and become bigger. Like the oxygen provided with each breath, we are denied its benefits until we relax and breathe in. - Stella Payton
I should have looked into my own heart, and found this new growth springing up there, and plucked it out while it was young. - Wilkie Collins
Sharing is an inherent sign of growth. - Debasish Mridha
People relates the process of evolution, as growth and success in the material world, rather in reality, the process of evolution, is all about, how you perceive life, with your understanding, in the present moment. - Roshan Sharma
So much of personal development and growth comes down to the decisions you make when you hit a wall. Do you spend your time feeling bad for yourself, or do you invest your time in continuing to build toward your dreams? - Andrea Goeglein
I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not. - Jim Henson
The greatest hindrance to growth in faith is comfortable living. - John Carey
The most profound personal growth does not happen while reading a book or meditating. It happens in the throes of conflict, when you are angry, afraid, frustrated. It happens when you are doing the same old thing and you suddenly realize that you have a choice. - Vironika Tugaleva
the sculpting of the brain’s circuitry during this period of brain growth depends to a great degree on what a child experiences day-to-day. - Lisa Lantieri
The only true end of love is spiritual growth or human evolution. - M. Scott Peck
There isn't a need to sugar coat life anymore, Cant we see we live through enough lies, deciet and painful realities to create more, by stagnating the growth of the ones your suppose to make an Impact on and more importantly yourself. Let life be funny, but never a joke. - Nikki Rowe
He will be sorry for the way he treated you, Don't you worry about that. Focus on your growth and watch his eyes gaze in sorrow as he knows, he was the bastard that made you strong. - Nikki Rowe
God in his infinite wisdom has deposited in everything the potential for growth and multiplication. - Sunday Adelaja
Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. - Ronald Reagan
If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth. - Robert N. Coons
Personal growth is the only thing which is going to remain with you forever. Therefore, your basic goal in life should be continuously grow physically, mentally and spiritually irrespective of whatever circumstances might be. - www.kavikishor.com
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. - Albert Einstein
Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. - M. Scott Peck
One of my greatest lessons of growth was to stop dwelling in the past and forgive myself and others from all the pain and hurt that was caused. When I finally let go and released, I was free with glee. - Jason Micheal Ratliff
The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice. - George Eliot
Atheism isn’t a growth model any more than I don’t like rollerblading is a workout strategy. - Tim Urban
In order to grasp the principles of spiritual growth, you need to be filled with understanding and the wisdom of God. - Sunday Adelaja
There is a possibility of economic growth through honesty and truth. - Sunday Adelaja
If your small work does not experience increase and growth, you will be starving yourself inspiration - Sunday Adelaja
Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth - Rasheed Ogunlaru
Storytelling is an essential part of our cultural and human identity...when we become afraid of stories outside the mainstream, I believe we have lost a valuable part of our cultural inheritance and growth. - Louise Sommer
Don't work for appraisal or appreciation, work for your personal growth - Sivaprakash Sidhu
A continuous growth, a steady growth is a demand of life. - Sunday Adelaja
Authentic prayer changes us, unmasks us, strips us, indicates where growth is needed. - Teresa of Avila.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. - John F. Kennedy
Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation. - Iwan Goll
Be so true to that active seed planted inside you that, in living out its growth, you can be surprised by nothing unknown to come. - Hermann Hesse
Where there is growth however, there is increase - Sunday Adelaja
Life’s struggles are necessary for growth. - Auliq Ice
Every growth on this planet is at the cost of loss to some one. No one can deny it or proove it wrong. - Ragesh Nair
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? - Carl R. Rogers
DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work. - Ambrose Bierce
If a celebrity from one walk of life is engaged to promote the growth of another field's activity, then the authority’s sincerity for its publicity is always under a big question mark. - Anuj Somany
Our failures make us who we are; they build our character, we are defined by what we do with them, and how we respond to adversity. Without failure there is no growth, no striving for better, no adjusting, or dusting yourself off to try again. - J.W. Lord
Some people insist on inviting me to their drama buffet... No thanks! My soul hungers for nourishment and growth; it doesn't lust for poison and depletion. - Steve Maraboli
It is important that you never place limitations on learning, personal growth, traveling, reading and making a positive difference in your life and others. - Tasha Hoggatt
Our churches are full of people during work hours, morning, noon, evening, praying instead of being in the factories, libraries, laboratories, facilitating economic growth - Sunday Adelaja
The growth mindset also doesn't mean everything that CAN be changed SHOULD be changed. We all need to accept some of our imperfections, especially the ones that don't really harm our lives or the lives of others. - Carol S. Dweck
I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth - Madeleine L'Engle
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
Tree trunks are composed of layers of growth. Meaningful expressions are composed of layers of words. Say something meaningful. - D'Andre Lampkin
Success is a process of learning, growth, progression and faithfulness. - Sunday Adelaja
We grow before we even know what growth means. We just know, I see things differently now. - Girl Meets World
Support can come from many, but growth is only achieved by the individual. - Tyconis D. Allison Ty
A person does not lose so much own professional growth opportunity by knowing less, as much by understanding more than others on the personal level. - Anuj Somany
Every person, experience and circumstance are opportunities for spiritual growth and development. They are not coincidences… they are synchronicities. - Renee Cefalu
If you want innovation, growth, and culture, invest in people, not technology. Technology can't lead, love, or connect. - Farshad Asl
I am a phoenix rising from the ashes of my pain and suffering. Today I am reborn, today begins my growth and change. - Kaitlin DS Cammie
There are two types of obstacles in life; those we put in our on way to prohibit growth. And those that life puts in our way to promote growth. - Glenn A. Maltais
Until you see fear as an opportunity for growth, you won’t grow beyond your current self. - Robert Tew
Learning is the source of growth and we become stagnant without it. - Euginia Herlihy
Your environment should not restrict your growth. Your atmosphere will impact your sprit, mind and body. The right one can make a world of difference in your life and the life of all within your world. Create a growth environment to grow consistently and to impact many around you - Farshad Asl
Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality.Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected. - Alfred North Whitehead
Growth is the process of gradual increase towards living a fulfilled life - Rosette Mugidde Wamambe
Growth happens slowly, slow down today enjoy life without been in hurry - Martin Suarez
Remembering to forget the past allows you freedom from a past that holds back your Christian growth. - Elizabeth George
Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth. - John F. Kennedy
You are the only problem you will ever have and you are the only solution. Change is inevitable, personal growth is always a personal decision. - Bob Proctor
To love, to support each other in every step we take leads us to reach the mature growth. - Euginia Herlihy
Healing takes place when grievances are given ample and patient space to be acknowledged, when there is transparency and honesty, when everybody is given the chance to be heard, when nobody is excluded, when people can accept the energy of the conflict and use it as a major opportunity for growth. - Franco Santoro
When you hoard knowledge, you deprive yourself of blessings and growth. - Kemi Sogunle
You and I have been created with a DNA that drives us to want to live a life with good experiences, forces us to human growth and leads us to the contribution of something beyond our understanding. - Yovanny Alfonso
Intellectual growth is when you surpass the barrier of puerility, puzzling people with your dazzling creativity. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Failures and mistakes are lessons to be learned from. They are opportunities for growth. - Avis J. Williams
When you look back at the painful and difficult events of your life, you find that they were the times of your greatest personal growth. The challenges of our lives provide us the opportunity to develop our highest potentials. - John Bruna
Stagnancy will suffocate a business… Leadership must be dynamic and evolving to ensure successful growth, enhancement, and longevity. - Steve Maraboli
When you see people only as personalities, rather than souls with life missions to fulfill, you forever limit the growth and possibilities of what God has in store for another person. - Shannon L. Alder
Groom yourself and your life like a shrub. Trim off the edges and you'll be stronger in the broken places. Embrace the new growth and blossom at the tips. - D'Andre Lampkin
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