Growth Quotes
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.Growth
Abbey, Edward
1927-1989 American Writer
We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.
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Allen, R. C.
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
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Arnold, Matthew
1822-1888 British Poet Critic
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
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Baker, Karl
I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.
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Beard, Charles A.
American Writer
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
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Bowen, Elizabeth
1899-1973 Anglo-Irish Novelist
In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.
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Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.
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Brown, Les
1945 American Speaker Author Trainer Motivator Lecturer
Love dies only when growth stops.
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Buck, Pearl S.
1892-1973 American Novelist
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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Buck, Pearl S.
1892-1973 American Novelist
Don t go through life, grow through life.
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Butterworth, Eric
Every winner has scars.
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Casson, Herbert N.
American Author
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
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Charles, Hare
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
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Chesterton, Gilbert K.
1874-1936 British Author
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Chomsky, Noam
1928 American Linguist Political Activist
The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
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Cicero, Marcus T.
c 106-43 BC Great Roman Orator Politician
We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don t.
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Clark, Frank A.
The perfecting of one s self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
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Confucius
BC 551-479 Chinese Ethical Teacher Philosopher
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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Coolidge, Calvin
1872-1933 Thirtieth President of the USA
Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night s gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.
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Coolidge, Susan
1845-1905 American Writer
Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.
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Dhammapada
BC 300 Buddhist Collection of Moral Aphorism
I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I ve come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...
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Dillard, Annie
1945 American Author Poet
I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient.
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Dyer, Wayne
1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer
If it s not growing, it s going to die.
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Eisner, Michael
American Business Executive CEO of Walt Disney Productions
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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Eliot, George
1819-1880 British Novelist
The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life -- mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
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Erving, Julius
1950 American Basketball Player
If we don t change, we don t grow. If we don t grow, we aren t really living.
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France, Anatole
1844-1924 French Writer
Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
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Fuller, R. Buckminster
1895-1983 American Inventor Designer Poet Philosopher
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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Gibbon, Edward
1737-1794 British Historian
Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
1749-1832 German Poet Dramatist Novelist
All men s gains are the fruit of venturing.
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Herodotus
BC 484-425 Greek Historian
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
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Hesse, Hermann
1877-1962 German-born Swiss Novelist Poet
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle...
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Hill, Napoleon
1883-1970 American Speaker Motivational Writer Think and Grow Rich
Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.
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Hubbell
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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James, William
1842-1910 American Psychologist Professor Author
Every phase of evolution commences by being in a state of unstable force and proceeds through organization to equilibrium. Equilibrium having been achieved, no further development is possible without once more oversetting the A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. Whosoever acts spoils it. Whosoever keeps loses it.
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Kabbalah
BC 1200-12700 AD Jewish Esoteric Doctrine
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
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Khan, Pir Vilayat
1916 Western Philosopher Teacher Master Author
Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?
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Kroc, Ray
1902-1984 American businessman Founder of McDonalds
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
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Lao-Tzu
BC 600 Chinese Philosopher Founder of Taoism Author of the Tao Te Ching
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow.
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Lawton, C.R.
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.
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Lee, Bruce
1940-1973 Chinese-American Actor Director Author Martial Artist
The entrepreneurial approach is not a sideline at 3M. It is the heart of our design for growth.
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Lehr, Lewis
American Businessman President of 3M Company
I don t know what it s like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you ve got to continue to grow or else you re just like last night s cornbread -- stale and dry.
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Lynn, Loretta
1935 American Musician Singer Songwriter
Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
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Maltz, Maxwell
American Plastic Surgeon Author of Psycho-Cybernetics
The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character, Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.
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Marden, Orison Swett
1850-1924 American Author Founder of Success Magazine
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.
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Marriott, J. Willard
American Businessman Founder of Marriott Hotels
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
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Miller, Henry
1891-1980 American Author
The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.
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Neal, Leonard
Growth is the only evidence of life.
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Newman, John Henry
1801-1890 British Religious Leader Prelate Writer
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.
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Pandita, Saskya
1182-1251 Tibetan Grand Lama of Saskya
Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.
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Peck, M. Scott
American Psychiatrist Author
Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.
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Proverb, Chinese
Sayings of Chinese Origin
Climb mountains to see lowlands.
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Proverb, Chinese
Sayings of Chinese Origin
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
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Satir, Virginia
American Family Therapist Lecturer Trainer Author
You don t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
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Shaw, George Bernard
1856-1950 Irish-born British Dramatist
Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.
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Shinn, George
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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Socrates
BC 469-399 Greek Philosopher of Athens
When I am grown to man s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
1850-1895 Scottish Essayist Poet Novelist
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
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Tracy, Brian
American Trainer Speaker Author Businessman
What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow; nothing can prevent it.
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Twain, Mark
1835-1910 American Humorist Writer
There is no growth without discontent.
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Unknown, Source
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody s weakness.
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Williams, Bern