Quotes About Growth

The key to surviving and thriving in leadership often rests in increasing our self-awareness.

When disciplined, however, the individual is given consequences that help shape him or her for future success.

Much of what you learn through times of adversity will become lifelong wisdom, and these truths will sustain you throughout your ministry.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

Limitations are only limited to the limitations of your limit .

In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratifications, is a curious anticlimax.

My contention is that while progress in some of the great matters of human concern has been long proceeding in accordance with the law of a rapidly increasing geometric progression, progress in the other matters of no less importance has advanced only at the rate of an arithmetical progression or at best at the rate of some geometric progression of relatively slow growth. To see it and to understand it we have to pay the small price of a little observation and a little meditation.

Early ideas are not necessarily true ideas.

Let knowledge grow from more to more,But more of reverence in us dwell;That mind and soul, according well,May make one music as before.

Wearing all that weightOf learning lightly like a flower.

Our little systems have their day.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Much have I seen and known; cities of menAnd manners, climates, councils, governments,Myself not least, but honor'd of them all;And drunk delight of battle with my peers,Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.I am a part of all that I have met;Yet all experience is an arch wherethroughGleams that untravel'd world.

And ah for a man to arise in me,That the man I am may cease to be!

Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings

A culture is in its finest flower before it begins to analyze itself.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

A clash of doctrines is not a disaster--it is an opportunity.

Error is the price we pay for progress.

Rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing. The limitation, and the basis arising from what is already actual, are both of them necessary and interconnected.

Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

Faraday was asked: "What is the use of this discovery?" He answered: "What is the use of a child - it grows to be a man.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.