Growth Quotes

In most cases, you look for what you don't have. It limits and stagnates you. And unfortunately, you don't know know how to use what you do have. Yes, you've got your Brain, Google, and most importantly, you've got Youtube. Use'em to your advantage! They are powerful channels you can harness for maximum accomplishments in your life.

Invest time, energy, and money into increasing your knowledge and wisdom so you can become the best you can be – it’s the best investment you could make.

Relationships are valuable no matter who they are between.

It's important to work on our personal growth, and part of that work is learning, and accepting the fact that we are absolutely enough, as we are. Some of our most profound changes manifest by simply embracing who we've been all along.

Your growth and involvement must begin to show lasting footprints as you exude maximum effectiveness and significance. Your leadership influence must translate into a source of inspiration for your peers and those who look at you as a leader.

Your rewards in life will be in proportion to the effort you apply.

There is no such thing as a neutral relationship. All your relationships affect you – some pull you down and others lift you up.

Taking action provides immediate feedback and an opportunity to review your progress to see if you are on the right track.

Everyday presents a new opportunity to grow and press forward to your success. Stay the course believing that where you are right now doesn't matter, as long as you are moving in the right direction.

Planning your day before it begins, and adjusting your plan through the day, is one of the most important daily habits.

When success is internalized, no situation, no matter how bad, can convince you that you will not be able to attain your goal. You become adamant and refuse to give up.

Just fancy! One can hear and see the grass growing,' thought Levin, as he noticed wet slate-coloured aspen leaf move close to the point of a blade of grass.

All worthwhile endeavours begin in your thoughts, and focusing your thoughts appropriately will increase your chances of success.

Dream until you can no longer tell the difference between your dreams and reality.

You will not be the same after the storms of life; you will be stronger, wiser and more alive than ever before!

The massive spread of corporate controlled humans across the face of the Earth would be regarded as a parasitic growth by nature.

Entrepreneurship is the process of discovering new ways of combining resources to create change – in whatever area of life.

You can’t always control your external environment, but you can manage your micro environment by intentionally choosing what you allow to influence you – by sight, sound, and presence.

Anyone can find the bad in any situation but it takes love to see the good in all things.

Concentrate on your strengths and talents to change your situation, and avoid those pity-parties. Absorbing the blows and present pain is a quality of greatness. Measure yourself against the goals and standards you have set for yourself, rather than comparing yourself to others and feeling discouraged or useless.

Eventually, it boils down to two choices – do I wish to experience this physical reality primarily through joy or do I want to experience it through suffering? That’s all there is to it. And since each person eventually works their way toward the realization that conscious expansion can happen through joy rather than suffering – enlightenment is a natural byproduct.

It is necessary to grow up in maturity, firmness and courage in order to reach the goal

There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort.

To live each day like it is your best, give your best, laugh your best, love your best and be the best you can be.

Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing", said the Butterfly.

Money might be a reward (by-product) but should not always be the only goal of your efforts and enterprise.

All around you, production must be taking place to bring you closer to realizing your defined success. Adopt a personal responsibility attitude to enable the realization of your dreams.

Luxury is the enemy of growth. This is the one thing that I learnt from my father, and I approve of it fully. Abundance is neither good nor healthy for the growth of a child’s mind.

There’s no secret to success, but if there were one, it would be that your decisions create your success or lack of it and the quality of your decisions will determine the quality of your life.

Behaviours and habits are therefore the end result of the entire value chain and cannot be changed in a sustainable manner by scratching the surface - you have to dig deeper. This is why jail time, threats and sanctions without appropriate rehabilitation programs will not change a person unless they embark on a personal journey/program to initiate the process of change from the inner core – how the programs in their brain are wired to influence their beliefs.

First accept the reality that we are all prejudiced because we have things and issues we have biases towards or against, based on our beliefs, thoughts and experiences. Accept that it is possible to differ on opinions, beliefs and philosophies without necessarily becoming inhumane or acrimonious towards each other.

Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act decisively without needing to know why.

Your mind must be prepared to face some kind of ‘failure’ or mistakes – take the lessons, face the consequences even if embarrassing, and march on.

Because we are always growing, life compounds and magnifies what is already in us. If you are miserable you grow in misery and if you are joyful you grow in joy. This makes self-love is the perfect soil from which to grow love.

But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it.

It is more important to find out the truth about oneself than to find out the truth about heaven and hell, or about many other things which are of less importance and are apart from oneself. However, every man's pursuit is according to his state of evolution, and so each soul is in pursuit of something—but he does not know where it leads him.

Each person you meet influences your mental universe in a way that has the potential to make a substantial impact upon the causality of the intellectual development of an entire species.

Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.

Sometimes what is said to be a gift may appear more of a curse only because the greatest gifts of all are the gifts that have enough disruptive force to break us out of everything that’s breaking us. And God loves us far too much not to give us exactly those kinds of gifts.

Begin to grow in wisdom and develop an informed approach to more global issues around you and along your path to success and significance.

Gratitude must come from a place of true sincerity to be effective. Without sincerity, the experience is incomplete.

The sole purpose of knowledge is to create hunger for experience.

Every day comes with a host of opportunities but also distractions. You need to develop good judgement in the decisions and choices you make.

The path of Tao is not that of sudden enlightenment. It is not like Zen. Zen is sudden enlightenment, Tao is gradual growth.

The connections that we have with others, the things we learn, and yes, our prayers—all of it is a web of connections that bind us into the fabric of reality and make us part of something greater than ourselves. And if our reality is only a tiny reflection of a much greater reality, still it is also an essential part. And the same is true of each individual life. Each deed and thought—each word between friends—adds a new thread to a tapestry so vast that we may never be able to step back and see the whole.

Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won't be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind.

A comfortable and easy life leaves no room for growth. We must therefore embrace our hardships and the lessons they bring.

Your footsteps will have more to say about your spiritual life than knowledge attained.

Focus is not a state of single-mindedly pursuing one goal or objective without getting distracted. Rather, it’s a commitment to exert all concentration and effort through constant adjustment like the lens of the human eye on a vision or purpose

Plan your work, then work your plan.

Whatever success you have had, whatever victories you have experienced, whatever you have done so far in your life is only a fraction of the potential within you

You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.

There’re two ways to fail in life: Choosing not to try or quitting too soon. You were dumb enough to show up so you’re left with one.

Accept the past as the past and realize that each new day you are a new person who doesn’t need to carry old baggage into the new day with you. It’s amazing how many people ruin the beauty of today with the sorrows of yesterday. Yesterday doesn’t exist anymore! For example, if ever I feel foolish or guilty about something I’ve done, I learn from it and attempt to do better the next time. Shame or guilt serves no one. Such feelings actually keep us down, often lowering the vibrations of those around us, as well. Living in the present moment is the recurring baptism of the soul, forever purifying every new day with a new you.

We cannot carve or forcibly preserveor cultivate belief. If it will grow, it growsas we do - mostly after we have fallen

A life of passion is not an act or a habit but a lifestyle.

Regardless of your gender, age, race, disability, colour, ethnic or national origin, how you use time each day decides who you become.

Mastering my mind one thought at a time.

The most painful moments and memories eventually lead to the greatest strengths and growth in life.

You were born for a purpose and a special reason.Your purpose identifies your passion, your potential, the source of your fulfilment in life, and ultimately your success