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Quotes About Growth

Winners make every setback a floor to launch higher. Non-winners make every setback a ceiling to launch lower.
~ Orrin Woodward
Most complain about dried up lawns; others envy a neighbor's green lawn, but winners learn from all lawns while cultivating their own.
~ Orrin Woodward
The challenge for a mentee is not only to learn what he doesn't know, but also to unlearn what he thinks he knows.
~ Orrin Woodward
If you want to live the life you've always wanted, you will have to change some things you've always avoided.
~ Orrin Woodward
Excellence results from the accumulation of proper choices compounded over time.
~ Orrin Woodward
To ensure longterm failure is not an option, one must learn from many short-term failures.
~ Orrin Woodward
Men's Leadership Success Formula: Get up, Show up, Man up, Mentor up, and Move up!
~ Orrin Woodward
What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.
~ Orrin Woodward
You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.
~ Orrin Woodward
Defeats are merely repeats with better information.
~ Orrin Woodward
Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.
~ Orson Scott Card
You cant change what you dont understand.
~ Orson Scott Card
Self-knowledge can be painful, but not half so damaging as self-ignorance.
~ Orson Scott Card
Because never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along?the same person that I am today.
~ Orson Scott Card
The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.
~ Orson Scott Card
Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
~ Orson Welles
Finally, under Mao Zedong the project of destroying the old core of Chinese identity was carried to a grim conclusion with a violent and totalistic resolve. But, like a forest fire that clears the way for new growth, it may have ironically also helped prepare the way to usher in a spectacular new kind of economic growth under his successor, Deng Xiaoping.
~ Unknown
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
~ Orville Wright
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
~ Orville Wright
If we worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true really is true, then there would be little hope for advance.
~ Orville Wright
If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt. If doubt is eventually justified, we were believing what clearly was not worth believing. But if doubt is answered, our faith has grown stronger. It knows God more certainly and it can enjoy God more deeply.
~ Os Guinness
With the deepest things in life, there is always more to knowing than knowing will ever know, so the deepest knowledge must be learned in life, from experience, and under a master.
~ Os Guinness
The way of the disciple is a different and deeper way of learning.
~ Os Guinness
Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet but are called by God to be.
~ Os Guinness