Quotes About Growth

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves.

Why is it that sometimes our prayers seem not to be answered? This is a manifestation of the Buddha's wisdom, so that we can deepen our prayers, become stronger people, live more profound lives and secure deeper, more lasting good fortune. If our slightest prayer was answered immediately, we would become lazy and degenerate. And we could not hope to build a life of great dignity and substance.

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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Emerson said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.

If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: I'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance. Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of selfpity. But when the wise man is handed a lemon, he says: What lesson can I learn from this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade?

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing

We are gods in the chrysalis.

When two partners always agree, one of them is not necessary. If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention.

Every day is a new life to a wise man.

Bernard Shaw once remarked: 'If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Praise is like sunlight to the warm human spirit; we cannot flower and grow without it. And yet, while most of us are only too ready to apply to others the cold wind of criticism, we are somehow reluctant to give our fellow the warm sunshine of praise."*

Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.

There's magic, positive magic, in such phrases as: I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts.

Education," said Dr. John G. Hibben, former president of Princeton University, "is the ability to meet life's situations.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means—we have everything to gain!

mistakes did I make that time?' "'What did I do that was right—and in what way could I have improved my performance?' "'What lessons can I learn from that experience?

Compared to what we ought to be," said the famous Professor William James of Harvard, "compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses powers of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.

Over three hundred years ago Galileo said:   You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

I have known people," he said, "who succeeded because they had a rip-roaring good time conducting their business. Later, I saw those people change as the fun became work. The business had grown dull.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors. It not only clears the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem created by the error.