Quotes About Growth

You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as great as your dominant aspiration

Like a penny over time, reading ten pages a day would compound, just like that, and create inside you a ten-million-dollar bank of knowledge.

The greatest gift you could ever give yourself is also the wisest business investment you could ever make. It is also the most critical step in accomplishing any challenging task, and is the one step without which all other success strategies, no matter how brilliant or time-tested, are doomed to fail. What is this mysterious gift? It is your own personal development. Investing in your own improvement, your own personal growth and betterment, is all these things and more.

No success is immediate. Nor is any failure instantaneous. They are both products of the Slight Edge.

That is the difference between the 5 percent and everyone else. They know how to use the slight edge to get what they want in life. No, let's amend that slightly: they know how to use the slight edge to get what they want in life—and they do it. They do the thing, and gain the power.

You already know how to do everything it would take to make you an outrageous success. All you have to do is keep doing the things that have gotten you this far.

Great success often starts from a tiny beginning—but there has to be a beginning. You have to start somewhere. You have to do something. If you add just 1 percent of anything—skill, knowledge, effort—per day, in a year it will have more than tripled. But you have to start with the 1 percent. Greatness is not something predetermined, predestined, or carved into your fate by forces beyond your control. Greatness is always in the moment of the decision.

little steps, compounded, do make a difference.

Because time will either promote you or expose you.

For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better. It's easy to do. But it's easy not to do, too.

I believe we are here to learn and grow, and to become so abundant in belief in ourselves that we finally tap into the full potential of the greatness that is within us and share that greatness with the world.

The same activities that take us from failure to survival would also take us from survival to success—if we would just keep doing them.

They do the thing, and gain the power.

As I began examining my successes and failures, what I gradually realized was that the very same activities that had rescued me from failure, that had carried me from the failure line up to the survival line, would also rescue me from average and carry me from the survival line to the success line-IF I WOULD JUST KEEP DOING THEM.

you've reached a place where many years of simple errors in judgment have compounded over time, and you're feeling it.

Life is doing. If you aren't doing, you're dying.

here's how real success is built: by the time you get the feedback, the real work's already done.

I could not change my past but that I could rebuild a new future by taking just a small step every day in the right direction,

The answer is as simple as it is sad: somewhere along the way, you lost faith. You became too grown-up to take baby steps, too sure you would never succeed to let yourself fail a few times first. You gave up on the universal truth that simple little disciplines, done again and again over time, would move the biggest mountains. You forgot what you used to know about the slight edge.

The power of momentum: steady wins the race. The power of completion: clear out your undones and incompletes. The power of reflection: facing the man or woman in the mirror. The power of celebration: catch yourself doing something right.

Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny." —Charles Reade

Sow an act, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny.

No success is immediate, no collapse is sudden. They are both the result of the slight edge accruing momentum over time.

The things that create success in the long run don't look like they're having any impact at all in the short run.