Best Growth Quotes

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.

You need to associate with people who inspire you, people that challenge you to raise higher, people that make you better. Don’t waste your valuable time with people that are not adding to your growth. Your destiny is too important.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

As you think, so shall you become.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

The first step toward spiritual growth is to become aware of your emotions.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape.

Faith itself is a horrible mechanism that stunts the growth of ideas. It also stunts the act of questioning, and it does this by pushing the idea that you have to have faith – and that nothing has to be proven.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

Every problem is a gift – without problems we would not grow.

To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.

Measure your success by the growth of your freedom.

You only grow by coming to the end of something and by beginning something else.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

We can’t possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name’s become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

After a breakup, it takes a couple weeks for the fog to settle, but it’s always a period of self-priority and growth. Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they’re right in front of your face and they’re really difficult, but we must make them.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.

If we want to be loved, we are looking for a support system. If we want to love, we are looking for spiritual growth.

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn’t just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better life. I’m part of a majority and not a minority. My life has been a life of growth. If you’re not growing, you’re not going to understand real love. If you’re not reaching out to help others then you’re shrinking. My life has been active. I’m not a spectator

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.

Countries with more gender equality have better economic growth. Companies with more women leaders perform better. Peace agreements that include women are more durable. Parliaments with more women enact more legislation on key social issues such as health, education, anti-discrimination and child support. The evidence is clear: equality for women means progress for all.

Life is based on growth and finding new challenges to face and overcome, new contributions to make to society, and constantly coming to a better understanding of yourself and the universe in which you live.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

The affirmation of one’s own life, happiness, growth and freedom, is rooted in one’s capacity to love.

Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in part only, for like all things else, when nourished and supplied plentifully with ailment, it is rapid in its progress; but let these be withdrawn and it may be stifled in its birth or much stinted in its growth.

Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.