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Growth Quotes


"Individuals who are focused on becoming better are individuals not easily offended. You can only offend those who are not on a path of constant growth and enlightenment."


"I feel that we are often taken out of our comfort zones, pushed and shoved out of our nests, because if not, we would never know what we could do with our wings, we would never see the horizon and the sun setting on it, we would never know that there's something far better beyond where we are at the moment. It can hurt, but then later you say "thank you." I have been pushed and shoved and have fallen out and away, so very, very, many, many times! And others around me have not! But then, the others haven't seen what I have seen or felt what I have felt or been who I have been, they can't become what I have become. I am me."


"There is no exclusivity in the comparison of emotions attached to opposites " This means that we can not appreciate feeling good when we have never felt bad. We can never appreciate comfort without being exposed to discomfort. let's make a determined effort every day to do uncomfortable things; because it's only when we push ourselves beyond our comfort limits that we get to uncover the abundant wealth of endurance within us, and get to tap into the true essence of comfort."


"You can never achieve greatness until you can leave bitterness behind."


"Learn how to learn before you learn, then learn to love before you love."


"It's time to change... it's time to start working on yourself.... improve yourself.... you don't have time for excuses."


"Have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparation moments or be a patient after preparation moments."


"I'm not cruisin' this opportunity in time and space for you to like or dislike my 'get-down', I'm here 'cause I'm down to get it right by the time I return to the 'mothaship'. I remain a work in progress."


"In the faculty of failure, mediocrity is never an optional course!"


"In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill on the way which may seem to be the end of the journey, but should a pilgrim of life climb such a mountain with tenacity and courage and gets to its apex, he would not only deeply feel and understand the tenacity and the courage it takes to climb the mountain, but he would also see ahead and have a clearer picture of the way forward better!"


"The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate.. headed for New York City, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered, was not all that interested. I wandered around my early twenties, paying rent and reading classifieds and wondering why the lights were not turning green for me."


"To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin."


"Every day, strive to refine your contagious shine, and shake the nonsense offered by those who lack the will to polish-up from within."


"The desert is harsh, but persevering flowers flourish."


"Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith."


"If you don't know yourself, you may easily blow away opportunities meant for your success! Know who you are made of and save your dreams from premature death!"


"A person can escape an ingrained pattern of mental incapacity or 'non compos mentis' ("no power of the mind) by reading, writing, thinking, and studying their environment for telling external determinates that will shape a journey of the mind, body, and soul."


"I stopped writing in a way they would understand because it wasn't for them or even him. It was for I to understand, for I to make sense, and for I to let go of it."


"Authenticity is the back bone of every dream and the source of open doors."


"Conquering hills today prepares you for conquering mountains tomorrow."


"There is no progress (spiritual) in this world like the one that comes from being cheated knowingly. This is a very high principle."


"Polish you potentials so as to shine your credentials."



"Investment is the best thing to do with time."


"I believe life is an education meant to teach us the need to be better people. And I believe this learning often takes place through trial and error which may mean being an awful person at times before clearly seeing and grasping the necessity to improve. If you don't agree with me, just ask Mr. Ebenezer Scrooge. I think Charles Dickens got it quite right."


"Anne walked home very slowly in the moonlight. The evening had changed something for her. Life held a different meaning, a deeper purpose. On the surface it would go on just the same; but the deeps had been stirred. It must not be the same with her as with poor butterfly Ruby. When she came to the end of one life it must not be to face the next with the shrinking terror of something wholly different--something for which accustomed thought and ideal and aspiration had unfitted her. The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must begin here on earth. That goodnight in the garden was for all time. Anne never saw Ruby in life again."


"Flowers still have to stretch to bloom."


"Never deviate from the right way and you will improve."


"Train your eyes to see the beauty in every little thing."



"When you go to church, you are supposed to go to church to invest in people or to invest in yourself."


"Every circumstance is an opportunity to re-define your confident level."


"What you conquer in your soul you conquer in your world."


"A small temptation can stop a great glory and turn great joy into a great sorrow."


"One who wishes to cross the ocean first builds a ship."


"You don't get drown by falling into a river. You get drown by remaining there. Falling accidentally and rising immediately was what distinguished Thomas Edison and Abraham Lincoln from the rest."


"You must commit to a lifestyle of constant and continuous never ending improvement of your daily habits, because it's one of the most important predictors of your success and the quality of your life."
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