Quotes About Growth

It is profitable for Christians to be often calling to mind the very beginnings of grace with their souls. 

presently I found two things within me, at which I did sometimes marvel (especially considering what a blind, ignorant, sordid and ungodly wretch but just before I was).  The one was a very great softness and tenderness of heart, which caused me to fall under the conviction of what by scripture they asserted, and the other was a great bending in my mind, to a continual meditating on it, and on all other good things, which at any time I heard or read of.

If you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.

The Stone Age didn't end because people ran out of stones. It ended because people kept learning and improving

sometimes you win, sometimes you learn

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.

Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

You'll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly,too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking,perceiving, questioning are encouraged.

Most people who decide to grow personally find their first mentors in the pages of books.

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.

It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.

First, when we are busy, we naturally believe that we are achieving. But busyness does not equal productivity. Activity is not necessarily accomplishment. Second, prioritizing requires leaders to continually think ahead, to know what's important, to know what's next, to see how everything relates to the overall vision. That's hard work. Third, prioritizing causes us to do things that are at the least uncomfortable and sometimes downright painful.

If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

God uses people who fail—'cause there aren't any other kind around.

Comparing yourself to others is really just a needless distraction. The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday. You do that by focusing on what you can do today to improve and grow.

Many people view leadership the same way they view success, hoping to go as far as they can, to climb the ladder, to achieve the highest position possible for their talent. But contrary to conventional thinking, I believe the bottom line in leadership isn't how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others. That is achieved by serving others and adding value to their lives.

Where success is concerned, people are not measured in inches, or pounds, or college degrees, or family background; they are measured by the size of their thinking.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight." —Jim Rohn