Growth Quotes - Page 12

Church growth strategies are the death gurgle of a church that has lost its way.

IT and the entire communications business clearly have the greatest potential for growth. But if you're talking about sheer size, the steel and auto industries will remain at the top.

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Live as if you liked yourself, and it may happen: reach out, keep reaching out, keep bringing in. This is how we are going to live for a long time: not always, for every gardener knows that after the digging, after the planting, after the long season of tending and growth, the harvest comes.

No civilization has survived the ongoing destruction of its natural support systems. Nor will ours.

Is there enough to go around? What is enough? Who can tell us? Certainly not the economist who pursues economic growth as the highest of all values, and therefore has no concept of enough.

Anyone who thinks that you can have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources is either a madman or an economist.

A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

Computers show up everywhere except the growth statistics.

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

A stronger middle class is not the consequence of economic growth. A stronger middle class is the cause of economic growth.

The development of the individual can be described as a succession of new births at consecutively higher levels.

Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press. It has accordingly been decided, by the practice of the states, that it is better to leave a few of its noxious branches to their luxuriant growth, than, by pruning them away, to injure the vigor of those yielding the proper fruits.

Teaching is a wonderful way to learn.

...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real security is... living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Entrepreneurship without skills limits your growth potential.

The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.

The entire socioeconomic system is based on production for profit and a growth imperative that cannot be sustained.

No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.

You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.

To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.

Production for the sake of production - the obsession with the rate of growth, whether in the capitalist market or in planned economies - leads to monstrous absurdities. The only acceptable finality of human activity is the production of a subjectivity that is auto-enriching its relation to the world in a continuous fashion.