Growth Quotes - Page 19

Infrastructure is key, but also how it's used, and that's political.

Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.

[T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be.

Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the successful man can begin to describe the impalpable elations and apprehensions of growth.

The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth

. . . the time has also come to identify and preserve free-flowing stretches of our great rivers before growth and development make the beauty of the unspoiled waterway a memory.

State interference in economic life, which calls itself economic policy, has done nothing but destroy economic life. Prohibitions and regulations have by their general obstructive tendency fostered the growth of the spirit of wastefulness.

Yes, know thyself: in great concerns or small, be this thy care, for this, my friend, is all.

Just as in nature systems of order govern the growth and structure of animate and inanimate matter, so human activity itself has, since the earliest times, been distinguished by the quest for order.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

Unless you invest in people, you are not going to see growth in the long term, the medium term, and maybe even the short term.

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

You must take risks, both with your own money or with borrowed money. Risk taking is essential to business growth.

Commitment to love - to growth, to authentic power is an everyday application of your will.

With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.

Play reaches the habits most needed for intellectual growth.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.

Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.

... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development--begun now and ending never.

Art is the inheritance of every individual, it activates evolutionary growth, it is an intellectual virtue, and the fostering principle for all that is made, done, or known.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

Nature is not a drag on growth - its protection is an unavoidable prerequisite for sustaining economic development.