Quotes About Growth

Lynda Madden Dahl

Recognizing that the movie business was the entertainment business that wasn't moving fast enough to fill my creative and financial coffers was an impetus to grow, and that has taken me and so many of my colleagues into a larger world.

The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation --must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

I believe that God gives you hopes and dreams in a size that's too large, so you have something to grow into.

Sometimes everything breaks up so something new can break through.

It's time to launch yourself into that bigger life using your full capacities and with the light of our spirit shining brightly.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

As long as you continue to seek Him, son, your love will continue to grow. And as you express your love for Him through obedience, He'll reveal more of himself to you.

But the truth is, I can't sip from an hour-long church service on Sunday morning or dash off a hasty prayer or gulp down a daily Bible verse and expect them to sustain me any more than I can expect a glass of water to last for a week.

Love for God is never instant. It has to grow and mature just like any other kind of love. The struggle is always with our will.

The only way to grow in faith is to put your faith to the test. You must place yourself in His hands and let Him prove himself faithful. Unless you make up your mind to trust Him, you'll never know that Yahweh is faithful.

You're feeling the flames, Ezra, but that's part of the process. This pot I just made won't be useful for anything until it goes through that fire." He pointed to the kiln, where waves of heat shimmered above it. "The pots baking in there right now would be useless if they didn't endure the heat.

Maybe it's because spiritual growth and vibrant faith in God don't happen in isolation, but under pressure.

Today Rosa's little one will take his first step in outgrowing his mother. Children are their own persons; they are not part of us.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.' It's the rought waters that train us to e His disciples. He uses the turbulent times I our lives to prepare us for His purposes-if we'll let Him.

But perhaps this is what goes wrong with long marriages--you state your opinions, your likes and dislikes, at the beginning and then forget to mention when they change" (135).

What did I get from Simon? An education - the thing my parents always wanted me to have.

Since emotional intelligence is learned rather than inherited, it can be improved.

Just think of all the confidence we start out with, all the certainty. And then we embark and we fail, much to our surprise. And then we fail something else, and gradually the surprise dwindles and soon we are surprised by nothing and thus are made adults.

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way.