Quotes About Growth

Dépouille devant tous l'orgueil qui te dévore, Cœur gonflé d'amertume et qui t'es cru fermé. Aime, et tu renaîtras ; fais-toi fleur, pour éclore ; Après avoir souffert, il faut souffrir encore ; Il faut aimer sans cesse, après avoir aimé.

Je commence à avoir trente ans, et je perds le talent de vivre.

Es steht schlimm um ein Leben, wenn es die Wüste nicht besteht oder sie meidet …

Sabeis como é, s'o pai é uma plantinha, quer logo qu'o filho seja árvore. S'o pai é uma pedra, o filho tem que ser uma montanha.

2 years ago I couldn't even spell Graduate and not I are one!

After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.

The first rule of resilience: allow your present crisis to refine you, not define you.

We grow into our best selves not when we avoid our problems but rather when we embrace them and work through them to resolution.

Growing in resilience is the first important step in preparing for the issues you will face as a leader. Resilience will help you refine your calling as a leader and sustain leadership excellence.

He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in its season and its leaf does not wither; and in whatever he does, he prospers. Psalm 1:3

Leaders are like trees. They need the winds of adversity and the pressure and challenge presented by crisis to sharpen their leadership skills. Our stormy times and even failures can strengthen our inner beings and cause us to fully mature and thrive.

Unexpected adversity is often painful yet crucial to the later success of a leader.

Before God promotes us, he takes us through pain to purify our hearts, deepen our dependence on him, and impart spiritual wisdom.

It's often been said that the only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

A resilient leader bounces back from adversity better than he was before.

The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.

There is no loss without pain. Yet there is no change without loss.

Failure offered me a better destiny.

The deepest and most significant growth comes through pain.

There are likely kernels of truth in the complaints that can be turned into valuable insights.

All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Philippians 3:12 ESV

Getting better requires humbling ourselves before the Lord.

Leaders aren't just born. They're made. You can never stop learning. You can't lead from the back. You have to take care of your people first.