Quotes About Growth

greatest enemy to tomorrow's success is sometimes today's success.

If you want to reach your potential and become the person you were created to be, you must do much more than just experience life and hope that you learn what you need along the way. You must go out of your way to seize growth opportunities as if your future depended on it.

When you accomplish something that you once believed was impossible, it makes you a new person. It changes the way you see yourself and the world.

The book you don't read can't help you; the seminar you won't attend can't change your life. The business gets better when you get better. Never wish it were easier, wish you were better.

You don't win an Olympic gold medal with a few weeks of intensive training," says (Seth) Godin. "There's no such thing as an overnight opera sensation. Great law firms or design companies don't spring up overnight…every great company, every great brand, and every great career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little." There is no magic solution to success.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is often painful. But we need to recognize that there are really two kinds of pain when it comes to our daily conduct. There's the pain of self-discipline and the pain of regret. Most people avoid the pain of self-discipline because it's the easy thing to do. What they may not realize is that the pain of self-discipline is momentary but the pay-off is long lasting.

Laughing is the quickest way to get up and get going again when you've been knocked down. Failing Forward

Success consists of a series of little daily victories." —Laddie F. Hutar

Do you know the difference between leaders, followers, and losers? Leaders stretch with challenges. Followers struggle with challenges. Losers shrink from challenges.

People are training for success when they should be training for failure. Failure is far more common than success; poverty is more prevalent than wealth; and disappointment more normal than arrival. —J.WALLACE HAMILTON

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years. To become someone who can mine a lot of gold, you need to keep repeating the process of good thinking.

Success is . . . knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.

Mark Twain said, "We should be careful to get out of an experience all the wisdom that is in it—not like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

Those things that hurt, instruct." —Benjamin Franklin

If you know who you are, make the changes you must in order to learn and grow, and then give everything you've got to your dreams, you can achieve anything your heart desires.

Past hurts can make you bitter or better—the choice is yours.

Every successful person is someone who failed, yet never regarded himself as a failure.

experience alone does not add value to a life. It's not necessarily experience that is valuable; it's the insight people gain because of their experience. Reflective

You are today where your thoughts have brought you. You will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you." –JAMES ALLEN

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

There is no achievement without failure.

To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.

Positive thinking does not always change our circumstances, but it will always change us. When we are able to think right about tough situations, then our journeys through life become

En Harvard y otras universidades, estudiaron la importancia de la actitud en el éxito de las personas. Se descubrió que la actitud era mucho más importante que la inteligencia, la educación, el talento especial o la suerte. De hecho, se llegó a la conclusión de que hasta un 85% del éxito en la vida se debe a tener una actitud positiva y educable, mientras que sólo un 15% se debe a la capacidad.