Development And Growth Quotes

Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.

There never is absolute birth nor complete death, in the strict sense, consisting in the separation of the soul from the body. What we call births are developments and growths, while what we call deaths are envelopments and diminutions.

It's important to us to see the development and growth. At the end of the day, it's our baby. Genetically it's ours. It's our embryo. We feel very connected.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world

In learning to know other things, and other minds, we become more intimately acquainted with ourselves, and are to ourselves better worth knowing.

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old.

Do not go through life; grow through life.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

The happiest life is that which constantly exercises and educates what is best in us.

Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.

The most meaningful engine of change, powerful enough to confront corporate power, may be not so much environmental quality, as the economic development and growth associated with the effort to improve it.

To conquer oneself is the best and noblest victory; to be vanquished by one's own nature is the worst and most ignoble defeat.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

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

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

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

All growth depends upon activity.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

the idea of a finished human product not only appears presumptuous but even, in my opinion, lacks any strong appeal. Life is struggle and striving, development and growth - and analysis is one of the means that can help in this process. Certainly its positive accomplishments are important, but also the striving itself is of intrinsic value.

Be the change you want to see.

Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.

Know thyself means this, that you get acquainted with what you know, and what you can do.

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.