Quotes About Growth

When it comes to situations that don't work out, whether in my business or personal life, my motto remains: "Next!" Forget about it, move quickly on to the next deal, and let the law of averages work its wonders.

You can choose the ways in which you'll be tested

I did learn one valuable lesson, though. I learned that you can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

You really did uplift me. You gave me the perspective and point of view and focus I needed to become truly conscious. Without you, I wouldn't exist.

become all too familiar and

who can draw something of value from any situation have a tendency to do better and remain healthier than those who cannot.

Yet, for most, our journey toward having the healthiest perspective possible is shaped by the way we face and "make friends" with the periodic roadblocks we encounter on our way.

Knowing what types of people and problems give you difficulty is the first step toward avoiding psychological vulnerability.

Small alterations in behavior can sometimes jumpstart a positive step to a healthier attitude more than disputing our dysfunctional thoughts ever can.

if there's no need to climb, then there's no reason to learn how to climb.

And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.

I could settle for being a man, or I could struggle to become a human being.

You have made a place in my heart where I thought there was no room for anything else. You have made flowers grow where I cultivated dust and stones. Remember this, on this journey you insist on making. If you die, I will not survive you long.

vision, without which we perish, is required to open us to willingness to use what we know and to work to extract hard reality from a dream.

Knowledge may be power, but not without the willingness, and the release from inhibiting mind-sets, to use that knowledge.

Listening, coupled with regular periods of reflection, are essential to the growth of the servant-leader.

This is an important test of maturity: to seek to avoid error, to accept the consequences of error when it comes (as it surely will), and learn from it and to wipe the slate clean and start afresh, free from feelings of guilt.

The grand design of education is to excite, rather than pretend to satisfy, an ardent thirst for information; and to enlarge the capacity of the mind, rather than to store it with knowledge, however useful.

A child can do nothing in his weakness. A man can do much.' 

As our society grows more mobile, and as the availability of weapons of mass destruction increases, the ability of the antisocial personality to realize his rapacious and murderous fantasies grows apace.

When people hear 'flourishing,' they think of appreciation and good feelings. But growth and development does not always equal 'feeling good.' Our culture is not about maximizing the minutes you feel good at work. We don't define flourishing by sitting-around-the-campfire moments. We ask people to do seemingly impossible things.

more than we understand, most people deal constantly with fear. "I'm not afraid," we know you are saying to yourself right now. "I feel fine." And you are right. You do not feel your fear. The reason you do not is because you are dealing with it. Though you are not aware of it, you have created a very effective anxiety-management system, and that system is what we call the immunity to change.

Over time, I came to formulate my purpose as providing contexts for people to flourish .

How do we help people (whether individuals or groups) to make their third column commitments visible? We begin by surfacing the biggest fears that arise in considering doing the opposite of any or all of the second-column behaviors. In