Growth Quotes

“If you don’t have enough sales, you simply don’t see enough good in others. Once you see the good in others, you will reach out to them.”
― Meir Ezra

“Choosing to let a good thing go in order to make room for something better is harder than I anticipated. And scary. So very scary.”
― Rachel Linden, The Enlightenment of Bees

“How we handle what’s ahead of us will be determined by what we learned from everything that’s behind us. For if we learned nothing, what’s behind us will be the exact same thing that’s in front of us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There are a lot of fleeting moments in life, and it’s always those small encounters that touch the fucking core. It changes you in subtle yet apparent ways. There was before them, but after them will come with a fight to forget that little moment that change your entire life.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Packaged inside of every mistake there lays a great lesson. And while I don’t want to take the mistake into the New Year, I most certainly want to take the lesson that’s packaged inside of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To think how different ones life would be had one moment not altered it all - just don’t sit there too long or you’ll self sabotage all your growth.”
― Nikki Rowe

“A good sign of maturity is when idleness doesn't jeopardize your integrity.”
― VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis

“When we train, our performance improves as we adapt to stress. Over time, however, if the stresses are too great or we don't incorporate sufficient recovery time, gains begin to diminish. To grow and adapt, we require stress, but equally, we need periods of rest and recovery. This is a delicate balance to strike: if we rest too frequently or for too long, we will become soft and move backward. We need stress to create adaptation.”
― Chris Duffin, The Eagle and the Dragon: A Story of Strength and Reinvention

“Patience is a byproduct of growth - we can bide our time when it is the time of our growth. There is no patience in
acquisition or in the pursuit of power and fame. Nothing is so impatient as the pursuit of a substitute for growth.”
― Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition

“Economics (...) is not a matter of discovering laws: it is essentially a question of design.”
― Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

“A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.”
― Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition

“You must always know your roots if you are to know how sturdy the tree will grow.”
― Zoraida Córdova, A Crash of Fate

“How glibly and thoughtlessly that phrase ‘make us grow’ slides off our tongues. As if growth were always a happy, shapely matter: leaves unfurling, blossoms opening, hearts and minds joyously stretching toward more light. Whereas the fact of the matter was, when we asked for growth, we were asking for a mess. Exploding tempers, privately nursed little petri dishes of resentments, insecure stumblings into dangerous new places.”
― Gail Godwin, Evensong

“The fact is, people who base their self-worth on being right about everything prevent themselves from learning from their mistakes. They lack the ability to take on new perspectives and empathize with others. They close themselves off to new and important information.”
― Mark Manson, 2 Books Collection Series: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck & Everything Is F*cked

“Every single morning, I take a breath is a new beginning and an incredible opportunity to either improve upon what I have been doing or to execute a new project or plan.”
― Carlos Wallace

“Exploring the dangerous margins of creativity is as essential as the safe, frequented center.”
― Gever Tulley, Fifty Dangerous Things

“It's crazy how sometimes you have to be destroyed to be made anew.”
― Rh Sin

“The experience economy, also known as theatrical economy, offers 6 new types of charging for time entry fees, per-event fees, initiation fees, access fees and membership fees. Creating new ways for business to grow with the experiences with the transformations created. These are engaging events of multiple dimensions. This is a new area for growth and potential and leads to further research on how this will evolve and affect communications.”
― Cindy Ann Peterson, The Power of Civility: Top Experts Reveal the Secrets to Social Capital

“Confidence grows when you know what you want, when you don't have to be told who you are. You know it on the inside so you don't have to force it on the outside. It just radiates. and your steps become effortless.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“Fear is a signal. It tells us that we have an opportunity to grow. When we encounter our fears, we have an opportunity to adapt, grow stronger, and improve in whatever realm we are currently developing. If we wish to grow, we need to spend time in the unknown. If we're not exploring the unknown, we're not growing, we're not adapting, and we're not getting stronger.”
― Chris Duffin, The Eagle and the Dragon: A Story of Strength and Reinvention

“To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition.”
― Eric Hoffer, Reflections on the Human Condition

“Growth and evolution is a choice that everybody has, but it’s only rare few that choose it.”
― Jennifer Pierre

“The day you convince yourself that you've mastered your craft or profession or even your relationships, is the day you cease to live. The thirst for knowledge and the mind's ravenous appetite for constant growth and evolution helps sustain a meaningful existence. If you cease to aim higher, you will surely fall short.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“People will forgive you for making mistakes, but they can's forgive you if you don't try”
― Beverly Brenna

“You don't have to like your teacher. [...] But that woman's got the kind of math in her head that you need in yours. Focus on that and ignore the rest.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

“Do not be careless with what is best for you. Your choices determine the quality of your life, and the quality of your life starts with you choosing what’s best for you, by choosing you first and foremost.”
― Samantha Caroline Lavallée

“Great writing is about packing a single thought into a handful of words so that your life can be enlarged by a boatload of growth. And if what you’re reading isn’t doing that for you, it’s just scribbling.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I made my ways straight from the bottom.”
― Jordan Hoechlin

“He’s hurting, Luan, and hurting those around him also. Please don’t let your bitterness increase towards him,’ said Jude, resting a hand on his shoulder. ‘Let it go … Not because he deserves that, but because you’ll need to do it, to survive yourself, to not become like him. Make the choice to do it, Luan, despite your feelings. And come with me too when we get back, to meet Shpetim’s murderer, Sheref, at the prison. Lay it to rest. Let’s move on from it together.”
― Paul Alkazraji, The Migrant

“Relying on current successes to drive future growth is preparing for bitter disappointment!”
― Daren Martin