Quotes About Growth

When we attempt to use criticism to win an argument, to make a point, or to incite change, we are taking two steps backward.

I had done my best, and that my lack of experience, not my lack of ability, was the reason for the failure.

Salutation to the Dawn Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course Lie all the verities and realities of your existence: The bliss of growth The glory of action The splendor of beauty, For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision, But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And every tomorrow a vision of hope.

I have quit telling people they are wrong. And I find that it pays.

For "the great aim of education," said Herbert Spencer, "is not knowledge but action." And

Recordemos que Emerson dijo: Todos los hombres que encuentro son superiores a mí en algún sentido; y en tal sentido puedo aprender de todos.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

You are one in seven billion—your progress is not meant for you alone.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

When we stop fighting the inevitable," said Elsie MacCormick in a Reader's Digest article, "we release energy which enables us to create a richer life.

Remember that successful action is cumulative in its results. Since the desire for more life is inherent in all things, when a man begins to move toward larger life more things attach themselves to him, and the influence of his desire is multiplied.

There is a Scandinavian saying which some of us might well take as a rallying cry for our lives: 'The north wind made the Vikings.' Wherever did we get the idea that secure and pleasant living, the absence of difficulty, and the comfort of ease, ever of themselves made people either good or happy?

To leave the road of continual failure, a person must first utter the three most difficult words to say: 'I was wrong.

By criticizing, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.

gran objetivo de la educación -dijo Herbert Spencer no es el conocimiento, sino la acción.

criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

Todo hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún sentido. En ese sentido, aprendo de él".

In his book I Ain't Much, Baby—But I'm All I Got, the psychologist Jess Lair comments: "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.

Abilities wither under criticism; they blossom under encouragement. To become a more effective leader of people, apply…     Principle 6 Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.

Yet, during these broken and irregular periods, he had developed one of the most valuable assets any man can have, even from a university education: a love of knowledge and a thirst for learning.

The ability to read opened up a new and magic world for him, a world he had never dreamed of before. It changed him. It broadened his horizon and gave him vision; and, for a quarter of a century, reading remained the dominant passion of his life.

Let's keep a record of the fool things we have done and criticize ourselves. Since we can't hope to be perfect, let's do what E.H. Little did: let's ask for unbiased, helpful, constructive criticism.

hombre que conozco es superior a mí en algún sentido. En ese sentido, aprendo de él.

but in the beginning, she was—well, susceptible to improvement.