Growth Quotes

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Under its current form, that is imperialism-controlled, debt is a cleverly managed re-conquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth and development through foreign rules. Thus, each one of us becomes the financial slave, which is to say a true slave.

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

I tell you to keep going, not because it's easy. Not because it doesn't hurt. I tell you to keep going because there's no other way. To stop is to die. Life is in motion. In growth. In change. Life is in seeking and in finding. Life is in redemption. Each moment is a new birth. A new chance to come back, to get it right. A new chance to make it better.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.

We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.

Remind yourself. Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

Anyone who believes in indefinite growth on a physically finite planet is either mad or an economist

Heartbreaks, disappointments and even our own weaknesses can serve as stepping-stones to the second half of life transformation. Failings are the foundation for growth. Those who have fallen, failed or 'gone down' are the only ones who understand 'up.'

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

We get Comfort from those who agree with us, but we get Growth from only those who don't agree with us !

Growth comes from activity, not from intellectual understanding.

You ain't gonna learn what you don't wanna know.

In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I'm going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here's a chance to grow.

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.

If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life.

Woman naturally seeks to embrace that which is living, personal, and whole. To cherish, guard, protect, nourish and advance growth is her natural, maternal yearning.

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

What did you learn today? What mistake did you make that taught you something? What did you try hard at today?

This point is . . . crucial,” writes Dweck. “In the fixed mindset, everything is about the outcome. If you fail — or if you’re not the best — it’s all been wasted. The growth mindset allows people to value what they’re doing regardless of the outcome.

Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end up.