Quotes About Growth

Take the pains required to become what you want to become, or you might end up becoming something you'd rather not be.

Be willing to take on new challenges.

Criticism is easier to take when you realize that the only people who aren't criticized are those who don't take risks.

To me, the long-term tax advantages and appreciation make real estate the best investment.

I quickly learned that the world is a changing place. You cannot stand still. If you do, life will pass you by.

Always try to improve on your performance. Do

you are in it for the long term, look for areas that have not yet peaked but have great upward potential.

Entrepreneurs must learn how to handle stress and fear. Stress and fear must motivate entrepreneurs to become more creative, learn faster, and increase their knowledge about people and business.

Buying and holding real estate can create bigger long-term gains.

Reinvest and upgrade. Always upgrade your real estate inventory by buying something better after you sell, while reinvesting your earnings with 1031 Exchanges.

Make big thinking friends and meet them regularly for lunch or dinner to trade ideas, voice opinions, and share dreams and aspirations.

If you ever have the chance to hear his "Think Big" talk, grab the opportunity.

The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.

I could not have known then that everybody, every person, has to leave, has to change like seasons; they have to or they die. The seasons remind me that I must keep changing.

When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.

Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won't enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

Truth grew in my mind like a fungus, and though I tried to sleep it out, there was no resisting the epiphanies.

I am willing to sound dumb. I am willing to be wrong. I am willing to be passionate about something that isn't perceived as cool. I am willing to express a theory. I am willing to admit I'm afraid. I'm willing to contradict something I've said before. I'm willing to have a knee-jerk reaction, even a wrong one. I'm willing to apologize. I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.

Here are two things I found taking the long road, though: Applause is a quick fix. And love is an acquired taste.

the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.

I'm perfectly willing to be perfectly human.