Growth Quotes

"Don't waste time on goals that don't change your life fundamentally."

"The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become."

"You have to be able to accept failure to get better."

"Failure is not the end. Failure is just a rep that didn't go up. You rest, you reset, and you try again."

"Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change."

"I think I was very lucky to have a lack of talent."

"The best jobs are the ones where you are a learning machine."

"Getting what you want is simple, but it's not easy."

"Everything you need you already have. You just need to persist in your awareness of it."

"Your vision is limited only by your willingness to challenge the status quo."

"The purpose of a business is to create a customer."

"If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives."

"Work on your strengths, not your weaknesses."

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."

"We are not that we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for that we are capable of being. Pearls of Thought (1881) p. 37"

"The journey is the reward."

"It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction."

"A superior who works on his own development sets an almost irresistible example. p. 427"

"I never look back. I look forward to the next training session. That's where the growth happens."

"Learning is a lifelong process."

"The ego is not wrong; it's just unconscious. When you see it in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it."

"When we are afraid of the future, it is because we are not sure of our ability to create it."

"Big things start small."

"We live in a world of instant gratification, but the things that matter are not instant."

"To be an innovator, you have to be willing to fail ten times more than the person who is playing it safe."

"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."

"The greatest risk is the one you didn't see coming because you were too comfortable with your success."

"Humankind is commanded to ascend from savagery. This is God's mandate, which cries out from the epicenter of our being: the imperative to mount from the base to the noble, from the savage to the civil, from beast to human. Theseus p. 119"

"We keep on fighting. We keep on changing ourselves."

"I don't think limits."

"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."

"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do."

"Over the long term, it's hard for a stock to earn much more than the business which underlies it earns."