Quotes About Growth

We must have a program to learn the way out of prison.

Time is the enemy of the poor business and the friend of the great business. If you have a business that's earning 20%-25% on equity, time is your friend. But time is your enemy if your money is in a low return business.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it.What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get. —Jim Rohn

People do grow up, unless stunted by some mass movement or other group sickness.

training is not knowledge and knowledge is not strength, but combine training with knowledge and then you

If they offer something better, I will gladly learn. Francis David, no. 566

After Petty's therapist heard the song "Wildflowers," he asked who the singer was addressing. "I told him I wasn't sure," Petty says. "And then he said, 'I know. That song is about you. That's you singing to yourself what you needed to hear.' It kind of knocked me back. But I realized he was right. It was me singing to me.

At the end of the day, it isn't where I came from. Maybe home is somewhere I'm going and never have been before.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the flame.

You can't 'increment' yourself into the future.

Routine and predictable days are the breeding grounds for complacency.

Challenges in life always seek leaders and leaders seek challenges.

Your greatest area of leadership often comes out of your greatest area of pain and weakness.

Being willing to listen to others and let them speak into our lives is a critical attitude leaders must have. It is not weakness to get good advice - it is strength to seek it out.

Only adversity provides the opportunity for greatness.

If today's churches, companies and organizations want to be thriving tomorrow, they have an obligation to coach and mentor the new generation of leaders.

We largely become what we have observed and respected.

Waylon said it best when he sang to Willy; 'If you see me gettin' smaller, I'm leavin' don't be grievin', just gotta get away from here. If you see me gettin' smaller, don't worry, I'm in no hurry I've got the right to disappear.

God is not in the business of making our lives all sweetness and light. He is in the business of chipping away our exteriors so that the image of Christ can emerge. The most painful thing He could take us through is motivated by His love and orchestrated by His power. Under God's authority and by God's grace, you are no longer a victim. Instead, God is using the trial to form you into the image of Christ Jesus.