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Growth Quotes
"Consistently failing is nothing more than an indication that you are progressing. The more we fail the farther we will see. Failure is not an option, it is the only option. A master is a master because he has had the courage to fail and the wisdom to learn from it."
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"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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"Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient."
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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried."
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"Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together."
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"It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons."
39
"Grow up and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."
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"Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping."
38
"Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you're doing is as valuable as gold."
37
"The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn't want to face."
37
"For a thinking man, the main thing is to understand who he is within."
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"Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth it's a shield."
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"Sometimes when you are falling down, you grow wings to fly."
34
"Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more."
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"Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit."
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"Desire activates the potential that was coined within you. You cannot unleash your potential without stepping up your desire to succeed..."
28
"I think somehow we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
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"Greatness can only be attained through time conversion."
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"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
27
"If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of America... that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers and poison the fair fruits of freedom."
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"Talent is the seed, hard work is the stem, perseverance is the branch, and success is the fruit."
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"Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don't want to suffer. We don't want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we're living our lives in a very comfortable area. There's no growth in that."
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"Only through the conversion of time can territories be conquered."
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"Life is all about conversion."
24
"Sometimes, challenging a person to do their best is the most kind and compassionate thing you can do for them."
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"They say: misfortunes, sufferings...well, if someone said to me right now, this minute: do you want to remain the way you were before captivity, or live through it all over again? For God's sake, captivity again and horsemeat! Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost; but it's only here that the new and the good begins. As long as there's life, there's happiness. There's much, much still to come."
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"Sow wisdom today, and you will reap success tomorrow."
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"It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."
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"A new heaven is the emergence of a transformed state of human consciousness. And A New Earth is it's direct reflection in the physical realm."
21
"She lit fire to the bridges and forts she built all these years, and she walked into it smiling and tears rolling down her cheeks."
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"Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born."
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"Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."
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"If seeds waited for perfect conditions to grow, there would be no plants in the desert."
20
"The key is growth margins went in the right direction, unit volume increased quarter on quarter, and expenses came down. We threw off over $300 million in cash. All of those were in the right direction. So I think we're on our way."
20
"Dwelling among shipwrecked dreams and losing oneself in wishful thinking cannot be a solution to tribulations. Identifying cracks and apprehending the defaults in one's life is essential to find a way to get out of a ghetto and to start a search for a new haven. ['The world was somewhere else']"
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"The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime."
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"40 percent of North Korean children suffer from stunted growth. 20 percent are underweight."
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