Quotes About Growth

If we can just try every day to be the best versions of ourselves, we are offering to the world the best addition to society.

One of the ideals [Margaret Thatcher] grew up with was self-denial and postponement of gratification, and yet she went about to create a greedy, short-term society. It is a paradox.

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.

The wealth of society is its stock of productive labor.

It seems like we're not learning as a community, as a society.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

Society of thinking men! This kind of society has only one destiny: To Rise!

The time has come, that man should change his ideas to respect the woman and woman should her to trust the man. Now social interactions need a better way to grow up.

Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile they are commonly planted too close.

We know that once we stop learning and call ourselves learned, we become useless members of the scientific society.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

The heart is like a garden. It can grow compassion or fear, resentment or love. What seeds will you plant there?

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

We may speak of love and humility as the true flowers of spiritual growth; and they give off a wonderful scent, which benefits all those who come near.

The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.