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Growth Quotes
"Leveraging your personal strengths means you will also need to become clearer about those strengths. It is easier to build on what you are already good at than start from your weaker areas. Take time to list down your strengths and reflect on them."
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"I may not have had a great background, but I am grateful because nothing could have prepared me for the future than the past I've been through."
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"Jiu Jitsu gives me an ideal to strive toward. Technical mastery lies on an infinite continuum and completion of this skill is impossible. Every time I train I have something that I can improve upon, and this will hold true for each and every training session that lies between me and my grave."
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"Exponential business growth comes from personal development."
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"No matter how much I care for you I cannot grow for you, you have to do your own growing " it's your personal responsibility. Make a plan on how you will get the skills and experience required to become a practitioner of note in your area of choice."
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"A butterfly does not return to a caterpillar after it is mature. We must learn to grow and evolve into a stronger, wiser and better version of ourselves. Life occurs in stages and taking a step at a time is key to learning and growing."
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"I don't regret the difficulties I experienced; I think they help helped me to become the person I am today. i feel the way a warrior must feel after years of traning; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right."
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"Your environment should not restrict your growth. Your atmosphere will impact your sprit, mind and body. The right one can make a world of difference in your life and the life of all within your world. Create a growth environment to grow consistently and to impact many around you."
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"Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree."
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"Don't strive to be superior to others, strive to be better than you were yesterday."
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"Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are."
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"Learn from a river; obstacles may force it to change its course, but never its destination."
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"So much done and so much learned, but so much more to do and see, and learn."
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"Now that one was mature then, said Peter, one could watch, one could understand, and one did not lose the power of feeling, he said. No, that is true, said Sally. She felt more deeply, more passionately, every year. It increased, he said, alas, perhaps, but one should be glad of it- it went on increasing in his experience."
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"If you have never failed, then you have not known life."
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"Use the pebbles of failure to build yourself a bridge to success."
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"The only source whence any thing like consolation or composure could be drawn, was in the resolution of her own better conduct, and the hope that, however inferior in spirit and gaiety might be the following and every future winter of her life to the past, it would yet find her more rational, more acquainted with herself, and leave her less to regret when it were gone."
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"On the way of perfection; often, there are healing steps into the void."
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"The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone."
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"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
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"Although it's good to have talent, character is so much important because bad character is an enemy for great talent."
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"Every time you shift a blame on what you could have taken responsibility for, you deny yourself an opportunity to learn and grow."
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"At ten, you are foolish. At twenty, you are naive. At thirty, you are alert. At forty, you are experienced. At fifty, you are wise."
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"I can't do everything for you. You must walk alone to find your soul."
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"It's funny how much more a person grows when she doesn't get what she wants. When you disappoint me, it's like I have to look in the mirror of my history and see all the times I've been disappointed by someone -- and all the times I've disappointed myself -- and then deal with the feelings that come to me because of it."
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"Live within and without your core of being."
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"Don't be confined by the self you have experienced, the self you know. Going beyond what you know and what you have experienced, challenge your brain with new questions and give it new tasks-then it will begin to manifest infinite creativity."
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"Living in the past is like choosing to cling to a chronic illness."
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"Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us our hour of triumph is what brings the void."
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"Your ability to discern key people in your life and organization before you bring them in saves you lots of time, trouble, and regrets... Watch out!!!"
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"I have seen far by seeing through the lens of Jiu Jitsu. I have exchanged a great deal of physical health for these insights, and these were trades worth making. My efforts were worth the return. I have sacrificed much in the name of this craft. Not for trophies or belts or prestige. For these fall away like dust. I pursued this art so fervently because it was not actually Jiu Jitsu I pursued. It was myself."
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"To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility."
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"One of my greatest failures: I was trying to cut a piece of moment so that I could erase it.One of my greatest achievements:I have learnt to ignore my futureless past."
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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
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