Quotes About Growth

by breakthrough, broken into three broad stages: disciplined people, disciplined thought, and disciplined

Somehow over the years people have gotten the impression that Wal-Mart was... just this great idea that turned into an overnight success. But...it was an outgrowth of everything we'd been doing since [1945].... And like most overnight successes, it was about twenty years in the making.

Good is the enemy of great... We don't have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don't have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life. The vast majority of companies never become great, precisely because the vast majority become quite good-and that is their main problem.

It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips.

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We might say, "My kids used to listen to me, but now they won't. Boy, have they ever changed." Wrong again. They haven't changed one iota. They're still listening to a voice outside their heads—it's just not ours anymore.

We can hurt a little as we watch them learn life's lessons now, or we can hurt a lot as we watch them grow up to be individuals unable to care for themselves.

ensure that Aidan has a learning experience from this incident, his mom and dad must remember one thing: to keep their mouths shut. Save the words for happy times.

Allow the consequences to do the teaching.

We are giving our children emotion. And kids thrive on parental emotion; they lean back and enjoy the show. It's part of human nature.

Marriage is a team effort. Grow closer to each other as you grow closer to God.

No matter how old you are or how long--or short!--you've been married, the day you accelerate your growth in the Lord is the day your marriage is positively impacted, improved, and strengthened!

Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.

You can't rest on yesterday's growth. You must be dedicated to growing today... and every day.

A man after God's own heart is... a man who yearns to please God, a man who desires to grow spiritually, a man who had a heart that obeys.

Your impact on the lives of others--your family, the people at your church, your workmates--is cultivated with each decision you make, no matter how small.

If you want to be a strong, maturing Christian, your first priority is to develop a closer relationship with God.

You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life.

Remember to forget what lies behind, reach and press forward.

In many ways spiritual exercise is like physical exercise. If you stop exercising physically, your body may not show the results of inactivity for a while. But one day you wake up and find everything is sagging in all the wrong places.

The Bible strongly encourages us to get involved in discipleship.

Genuine faith will produce genuine changes in your life.

Let your past failures prepare you for future victories.

If you want to see changes in the spiritual tone of your home and marriage, start with your own life.