392 quotes
“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”
— Paul Tillich
“Thought without learning is useless.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
“Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”
— Unknown
“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”
— Zig Ziglar
“All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of living. One must also leave behind the self that one has begun to outgrow.”
— Lafcadio Hearn
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
— Neale Donald Walsch
“The iron ore thinks itself senselessly tortured in the furnace, but the tempered blade looks back and knows better.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
— Joseph Campbell
“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“The world is a great book, of which those who never stir from home read only a page.”
— Augustine of Hippo
“A person grows according to how they understand themselves.”
— Carl Rogers
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
“Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not.”
— John Maxwell
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
— Maya Angelou
“Do not be ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”
— Confucius
“Knowledge is power, but using it is growth.”
— Robert Ingersoll
“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops, but the cultivation and perfection of human beings.”
— Masanobu Fukuoka
“To teach is to learn twice.”
— Joseph Joubert
“Man must transcend himself.”
— Nietzsche
“Work to become, not to acquire.”
— Elbert Hubbard
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
— Leo Tolstoy
“If you treat time as an investment, not a container, confidence becomes earned.”
— DuckyHeals
“They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
“Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.”
— Hal Elrod
“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
— Pema Chodron
“If you keep your standards when no one is watching, stress drops and focus rises.”
“The only journey is the one within.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.”
— Og Mandino
“The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.”
— Robin Sharma
“The best thing about family life is that it forces you to grow and love beyond yourself.”
— Dorothy Day
“If you prepare when the pressure is low, results become repeatable.”
“Leaders multiply talent by giving people room to grow.”
— Anonymous
“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
— Paulo Coelho
“When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.”
— Iyanla Vanzant
“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Growth in compassion happens through those we welcome into our lives especially the vulnerable”
— Jean Vanier
“The soul that is not trained by experience has learned nothing.”
— Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”
— Anais Nin
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
— Abraham Maslow
“Growth and comfort do not coexist”
— Ginni Rometty
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.”
— Erich Fromm
“Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.”
— Henry Ward Beecher
“Learning never exhausts the mind.”
“I am still learning.”
— Michelangelo
“If you grow by just 1% every day, you will be 37 times better in a year.”
— James Clear
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
“Small daily wins become the story people call overnight success.”
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.”
“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
“We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are.”
— Max DePree
“The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.”
— Bernard Baruch
“We become what we think”
— Burdingha
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
“The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.”
“Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.”
— Jack Welch
“What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do”
— Tim Ferriss
“If you build systems that survive low motivation, execution becomes cleaner.”
“Adversity makes humans stronger.”
“What we pay attention to grows so what are you attending to”
— adrienne maree brown
“Failure is evidence of growth.”
“Becoming better than yesterday, that's real growth.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you simplify your plan until it is executable.”
“Working is growing”
— Karl Marx
“To move to the next stage, you must let go of the familiar.”
“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem.”
— Thomas Szasz
“The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.”
“Do one thing every day that scares you”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Family is both the cradle and the crucible of our becoming.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
“Becoming is better than being”
— Carol Dweck
“Life isnt about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
— George Bernard Shaw
“If you schedule deep work like a non-negotiable meeting, execution becomes cleaner.”
“Things do not change; we change.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”
— Plutarch
“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
— Louisa May Alcott
“Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness”
“A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.”
— Seneca
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.”
— George Washington
“Every artist was first an amateur”
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.”
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.”
— Epictetus
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”
“The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.”
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
“Defeat myself today.”
— Dante
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
“He who moves not forward goes backward.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through”
“Learning how to grow, that is the most important thing we can do.”
“Authentic happiness derives from raising the bar for yourself not comparing yourself to others”
— Martin Seligman
“When you know better, you do better.”
“The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
— Rumi
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.”
— James Baldwin
“Momentum returns quickly when you solve root causes instead of symptoms.”
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security and healing requires the same”
“Iron sharpens iron; scholar sharpens scholar.”
“The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.”
— Swami Vivekananda
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become.”
“If you are not getting better you are getting worse”
— Pat Riley
“Everything is figureoutable.”
— Marie Forleo
“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”
“Small achievements build great confidence.”
“The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.”
— Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso)
“If roses can grow through concrete then so can you”
— Nikita Gill
“I have forced myself to contradict myself to avoid conforming to my own taste”
— Marcel Duchamp
“To be fully alive fully human and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest”
“Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”
— John F. Kennedy
“If you turn plans into calendar blocks, confidence becomes earned.”
“The just man is not the product of a day, but of a long brooding and a painful birth.”
— Frederick Douglass
“Constant self-improvement is the best investment.”
“You need to fail to learn how to overcome failure.”
“Education is the process of engraving what kind of person one will become onto the soul.”
— Plato
“If you practice the fundamentals relentlessly, results become repeatable.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
— Winston Churchill
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual you will have to settle for the ordinary”
— Jim Rohn
“One must learn to be patient and find that things will come to one in their own good time.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you ship drafts and improve in public.”
“Patience is a bitter fruit, but its fruit is sweet.”
— Aristotle
“In any given moment we have two options to step forward into growth or to step back into safety”
“The ultimate goal of farming is not the growing of crops but the cultivation and perfection of human beings”
“You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new”
— Brian Tracy
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. When the student is truly ready, the teacher will disappear.”
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Momentum returns quickly when you do the obvious work others keep delaying.”
“The process makes you stronger than the outcome.”
“Leaders are not born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work.”
— Vince Lombardi
— Oprah Winfrey
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
— Wayne Dyer
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
— Henri Bergson
“Run my dear from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings.”
— Hafiz
“What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.”
“Man perfects himself through study.”
— Kant
“Momentum returns quickly when you keep promises to yourself when no one checks.”
“Real love always brings about growth in compassion and understanding for both the giver and receiver”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.”
— Steve Maraboli
“When you feel limits, you are in the process of growing.”
“The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of being some day a commander.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as long as we live.”
— Mortimer Adler
“True skills grow in times of quiet growth.”
“Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.”
— Miguel de Cervantes
“Learning never exhausts the mind”
“Conquering oneself is the true victory.”
“Life is about discovering yourself. The more I know what I want, the more I know who I am.”
— James Michener
“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”
“I have grown most not from victories, but setbacks.”
— Serena Williams
“What you resist not only persists but will grow in size”
— Carl Jung
“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.”
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
“You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Growth comes from changing little by little every day.”
“To truly understand is to acknowledge one's mistakes.”
“The doors of wisdom are never shut.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you act on feedback before it goes stale.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.”
— Pablo Picasso
“If you review your priorities every morning, momentum becomes easier to keep.”
“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.”
“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“The seed of God is in us if the seed had a good wise and industrious cultivator it would thrive all the more and grow up to God”
— Meister Eckhart
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
“Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“The battles that count are not the ones for gold medals the struggles within yourself are the ones that matter”
— Jesse Owens
“To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.”
— Samuel Johnson
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
“Dont live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”
“Associate with people who are likely to improve you.”
“The process creates more value than the result.”
“The good life in family is a process not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.”
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”
“I always did something I was a little not ready to do I think that is how you grow”
— Marissa Mayer
“Dont wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
“Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.”
— Francis de Sales
“When you appreciate the good, the good appreciates.”
— Tal Ben-Shahar
“No mud no lotus”
“Learn silence with the learned speak with the ignorant in silence we grow”
— Pythagoras
“Your future changes when your standards change.”
“Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.”
“It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.”
— Wendell Berry
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
“Life is a school, and living is learning.”
— Henry Ford
“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.”
— Lao Tzu
“It is more difficult to want to know myself than not to know myself.”
“The mind once stretched by a new idea never returns to its original dimensions.”
“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
“Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.”
— George Iles
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
— Jack Canfield
“Solitude is not a private therapeutic place but the place of conversion”
— Henri Nouwen
“What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.”
— Oscar Wilde
“If you protect recovery so your effort is sustainable, opportunities start to multiply.”
“If you trade speed for clarity at key decisions, progress becomes visible.”
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
— Ram Dass
“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges”
“If you start before you feel fully ready, stress drops and focus rises.”
“No man ever steps in the same river twice for it is not the same river and he is not the same man”
— Heraclitus
“Effort does not betray.”
— Kim Yuna
“When we were children we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability.”
— Madeleine LEngle
“From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.”
— Aeschylus
“The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church”
— Tertullian
“The view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life”
“The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud.”
“The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written.”
— Melody Beattie
“You were not born to shrink down to less but to blossom into more of who you really are”
— Sonya Renee Taylor
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”
“The truth will set you free but first it will make you uncomfortable”
— Gloria Steinem
“Momentum returns quickly when you build feedback loops into your workflow.”
“Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you, and brace themselves against you?”
— Walt Whitman
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.”
— John Quincy Adams
“Momentum returns quickly when you protect your first hour for meaningful work.”
“I consider knowing myself to be the most important.”
— Socrates
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves.”
— Viktor Frankl
“A man's errors are his portals of discovery.”
— James Joyce
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.”
— Brene Brown
“We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday not to who someone else is today and let time measure your growth”
— Jordan Peterson
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. Creativity is that courage made visible.”
— E.E. Cummings
“Change is the end result of all true learning.”
— Leo Buscaglia
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.”
“People become what they think about.”
— Maurice Maeterlinck
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
“A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
— Albert Einstein
“If you are irritated by every rub, how will you ever get polished?”
“Great things never came from comfort zones.”
“You dont start out writing good stuff you start out writing bad stuff”
— Octavia Butler
“Today's regret can become tomorrow's resolution.”
“No great thing is created suddenly any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig and if you tell me that you desire a fig I answer you that there must be time and faith for growth”
“In a day when you do not come across any problems you can be sure you are traveling in a wrong path.”
“Challenges make me stronger.”
“If you improve one repeatable process each day, opportunities start to multiply.”
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
“You can become a much greater person than you are now.”
“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”
— Euripides
“Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you focus on completion before optimization.”
“Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.”
“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
— Gail Sheehy
“Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.”
“The world is a great book, of which they who never stir from home read only a page.”
— Saint Augustine
“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
“Today's hardship becomes tomorrow's strength.”
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.”
“Only those who challenge themselves see a new world.”
“The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.”
— Joanna Macy
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
“Move out of your comfort zone you can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new”
“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”
— Fred Rogers
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars”
“Just because you are CEO do not think you have landed the job is not about the corner office”
— Indra Nooyi
“Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.”
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things and faith transforms each defeat into growth”
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
— Anaïs Nin
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
“The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to tolerate insecurity.”
“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”
“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.”
“That which we persist in doing becomes easier for us to do; not that the nature of the thing itself is changed, but that our power to do is increased.”
“Be thankful for what you have and you will end up having more.”
“If you write down the next step before ending the day, momentum becomes easier to keep.”
“The good life is a process, not a state of being.”
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
“Men learn while they teach.”
“Learning is never a waste of time”
— Richard Templar
“Momentum returns quickly when you document what works and repeat it.”
“A person becomes what they think.”
“Learning is open to everyone.”
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
— Mahatma Gandhi
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you say no to work that does not matter.”
“Nothing can be gained without pain.”
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
— Marcel Proust
“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
— Seneca the Younger
“He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”
— Harold Wilson
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
“No mud, no lotus.”
“I am not destroying myself, I am creating myself.”
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance.”
“Doing your best in small tasks is the beginning of big dreams.”
“Becoming is better than being.”
“Thought without study is vain.”
“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
— John C. Maxwell
“Learning is youth, and understanding is maintaining youth.”
— José Martí
“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving natures laws wrong it learned to walk without having feet”
— Tupac Shakur
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you choose consistency over intensity.”
“Love does not dominate; it cultivates.”
“The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction.”
“Growth comes when you endure discomfort.”
“Make an effort to improve little by little.”
“Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.”
— Nicolas Chamfort
“You are not defined by your past. You are prepared by your past.”
— Joel Osteen
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself.”
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man true nobility is being superior to your former self”
— Ernest Hemingway
“The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.”
— Bertrand Hamilton
“To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.”
— Bertrand de Jouvenel
“No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time.”
“The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”
— George Eliot
“You outgrow limits by keeping promises to yourself.”
“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”
“When you think everything is someone elses fault you will suffer a lot”
— Dalai Lama
“The good life is a process not a state of being”
“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.”
— Anthony J. D'Angelo
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does love is a battle love is a war love is a growing up”
“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.”
— Erica Jong
“We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.”
— Bryan White
“We do not grow absolutely chronologically we grow sometimes in one dimension and not in another”
“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”
“Today is the result of yesterday and the seed of tomorrow.”
“I am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to do it”
“All of us who do creative work get into it because we have good taste”
— Ira Glass
“My dad encouraged us to fail growing up he would ask us what we failed at that week”
— Sara Blakely
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
“When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.”
“Be grateful for small achievements, they are the beginning of big accomplishments.”
“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”
— Seneca the Elder
“It is not daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away the unessential.”
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves.”
— Anatole France
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.”
“For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof.”
“If you keep meetings short and decisions clear, progress becomes visible.”
“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait and wait without anxiety.”
— Gabby Bernstein
“If you want to improve be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
“As long as you live, keep learning how to live.”
“One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him.”
“If you finish one hard task before noon, progress becomes visible.”
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you measure progress weekly instead of guessing.”
“Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.”
— Mandy Hale
“Know thyself.”
“Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.”
— Chinese Proverb
“Challenges make me grow.”
“Even at this moment, you are growing.”
“Momentum returns quickly when you raise the quality of your inputs.”
“Compare yourself to who you were yesterday not to who someone else is today”
“In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
“There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better stronger richer quicker or smarter”
— Miyamoto Musashi
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
“You do not have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.”
— Les Brown
“It is no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
— Lewis Carroll
“Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity and we can build it it is not fixed”
— Sheryl Sandberg
“Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into through daily practice and devotion”
“Momentum returns quickly when you close the loop on small commitments.”
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