Quotes About Growth

Managing a knowledge portfolio is very similar to managing a financial portfolio.

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you'll be forever in the control of things you can't give up.

Work for peace. Think before you say something. Are you making things better or just taking out your trash. The point is growth. Constant process of reclamation. Clearing out the deadwood and making room for things to grow.

We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

If the source were simply a few behavioral habits, you would have conquered them already.

To get from where we don't want to be to where we do want to be requires two things: time and a change of direction.

So what's the deal with the desert? I don't know. But I do know the time between catching a glimpse of what God wants to do through us and the time when we are led to move out often feels like a desert experience. The desert always feels like a complete waste of time. It is only when we are able to look back that our desert experiences make sense.

become the person the person you're looking for is looking for

We only get one shot at every season of life. Whether or not we learned anything becomes evident in the seasons that follow.

The desert always feels like a complete waste of time. It is only when we are able to look back that our desert experiences make sense.

As you give to fund God's needs, are you forced to trust Him to provide for yours? That's what a growing faith is about. And over the long haul, it's not enough just to commit to a percentage. Growth means reviewing your giving goals and occasionally increasing the percentage you give.

delegation—either to time or to other people.… Transferring responsibility to other skilled and trained people enables you to give your energies to other high-leverage activities. Delegation means growth, both for individuals and for organizations.

Think about this for a moment. What would happen if you were to begin speaking to people's potential rather than their performance? What if you made it a habit to dispense the same type of grace to others as has been poured out on you? What would happen if you intentionally laced your conversations with notions of what could be true of the people around you?

We have a tendency to measure ourselves against the people around us. They become our point of reference. A good coach will evaluate your performance against your potential. …if we are wise enough to listen, they will help us go further, faster.

Nobody matures past his or her need for prayer and meditation.

Experience is often a brutal teacher. Experience eats up you most valuable commodity:time. Learning from experience can eat up years. It can steal an entire stage of life.

But, then, that's the point. In leadership, success is succession.

If you want your church to stand the test of time, then you have to be replaced.

When a leader attempts to become well-rounded, he brings down the average of the organization's leadership quotient—which brings down the level of the leaders around him. Don't strive to be a well-rounded leader. Instead, discover your zone and stay there. Then delegate everything else.

Initially, your vision will exceed your competency.