Quotes About Growth

He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

I had plenty of vices growing up.

We've all got vices, and we're all freakin' trying.

We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

The higher interest and higher inflation is a vicious cycle.

Mutual fund managers are trapped in this rather deadly vicious circle: the more successful they are, the more money flows into their mutual fund. Then, it is more difficult for them to beat the market averages or even to match their own past performance.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

I want people to understand that tragedy and trial does not necessarily mean that you are a victim.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

My time on television began, and I started playing victims. I did about 10 or 12 years of them, which gets boring, right?

Technology enabled Rappler's fast growth starting in 2012, but we were also among the first victims when social media was weaponized in 2016.

One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

I have not lost an awful lot in my life, but the defeats have taught me more than the victories.

You learn a lot from defeats. As well, you need to learn from victories.

My losses and my victories are in the past. I think of the future. After a fight is over, it's in the past. I always have to go back to the gym and train to improve in all areas, winning or losing. I think I can always do better next time.

Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.

After many of my victories, I hear people asking me these questions: 'What else is there to win?' And I want to shout, 'What do you mean, what else? There's so much else!'

I'm not gonna get it all right, but I take my victories, as small as they are.

Give your employees a shot at showing the company a new way, and provide the room for them to chalk up a few small victories. Once they've proved that their idea can work on a limited basis, they can begin to scale it up.