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Quotes About Growth

A man though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
~ Sophocles
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Become who you are by learning who you are.
~ Robert Greene
Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.
~ Armstrong Williams
The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think
~ Albert Einstein
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back." - Chinese proverb
~ Alvin Toffler
Mistakes are inevitable in aviation, especially when one is still learning new things. The trick is to not make the mistake that will kill you.
~ Stephen Coonts
There can be no learning without action, and no action without learning
~ Reg Revans
When you stop learning you stop growing.
~ Ken Blanchard
Once you embrace unpleasant news, not as a negative but as evidence of a need for change, you aren't defeated by it. You're learning from it.
~ Bill Gates
Be open to learning new lessons, even if they contradict the lessons you learned yesterday.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.
~ Clayton Christensen
Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.
~ Carl Rogers
It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.
~ Nelson Mandela
You only stop learning when you quit.
~ Ruud Gullit
We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.
~ Eugenia Price
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn to stop making them.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.
~ Peter Drucker
So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album.
~ Sonny Terry
Over the long run, superior performance depends on superior learning.
~ Peter Senge
Every person that you meet knows at least one thing that you don't. Don't let them leave without learning it.
~ Robin Sharma
I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in the service of what I believe, how to accept when I fail and rejoice when I succeed.
~ Audre Lorde
Surviving a failure gives you more self-confidence. Failures are great learning tools - but they must be kept to a minimum.
~ Jeffrey R. Immelt
When you're learning, you're burning - putting out a lot of heat. When you're all burned up, then you become light.
~ Adi Da