Growth Quotes - Page 19

Like any formula, success has parts and therefore it is expressed in three ways – achievement (a science), fulfilment (an art) and lifestyle (an act). All three have to be present for the formula to be complete.

To be happy, you simply need to choose happiness and it comes from within not without.

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond who you were.

Some of the greatest miracles one could ever receive in their life is the ones that happen when their faith and action has been applied.

Daily reading of scriptures is essential for your spiritual growth.

Consistency in action is easy once you convert your daily disciplines and activities into habits.

If your dream is accepted by all, you don’t have a big enough dream. Big dreams challenge the status quo.

My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free.

Quit thinking and take the plunge. The way to get started is to stop talking and start doing.

Failure results from broken focus, and an average person with complete unwavering focus can achieve more than a team of geniuses with broken focus.

Goals reveal your path to success, greatness and significance. Become a master goal setter and you will chart the course of your life.

Love is revealed progressively.

God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.

Mr. J.L.B Matekoni," she asked, "do you think that our souls grow as we get older?"He did not answer immediately, but when he did, she thought his answer quite perfect. "Yes," he said. "Our souls get wider. They grow like the branches of a tree--growing outwards. And more birds come and make their homes in these branches. And sing a bit more." He stopped and looked a little awkward. "I'm talking nonsense, Mma.""You're not," she said.

After a certain point, all natural bodily changes are for the worst.

Every action in this world, every word, every thought, has an effect. But the actor is also acted upon by his action. The condition on which you are allowed to make a change in the world is that the world changes you as well.

We are all daughters of God in various stages of construction.

Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.

Selling and teaching demand that you develop your intrapersonal and interpersonal communication skills. You must be able to communicate with yourself as well as with others in a way that makes them buy your offering or benefit from the knowledge you want to impart.

A tree is no more valuable than a seed. Both are simply at a different stage in their development.

Your habits can guide you in the direction of your dreams or hold you back from achieving them. Look closely at your daily habits and you can predict your future with accuracy.

The first step may be the hardest, but once you take action you create motion, which in turn builds momentum.

People and organisations should want to be associated with you as a brand. A sign of a depleted and irrelevant brand is unwillingness of your market or peers to associate with you.

She remembered who she wasand the game changed.

Life is like soil – it will always return a harvest. If you plant good seeds, you’ll reap a bountiful harvest.

Everyday presents a new opportunity to grow and press forward to your success. Stay the course believing that where you are right now doesn't matter, as long as you are moving in the right direction.

You can leverage time by using it wisely and purposefully.

Soon, when all is well, you're going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up.

Review and question what you already know or have. In most ball sports and games, you confirm whether you have scored by checking whether the ball has gone into the goal or hit its target. So evaluation of results means that you must look at your goal to see if the ball has hit its target. Look at your educational aspirations or dreams and say “am I on track to meet my 2020 PhD target?

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be.

Are you able to remain humble and kind when things do not go the way you want or expect? Be kind when you are in pain; be kind even when your life seems to be falling apart around you. Be humble not only when you succeed but also when you fail. Kindness in word and action, and humble in thought and belief. It is important to not only say and do the ‘right’ thing, it is important to also think and believe it - which is being genuine in nature of peace embodiment.

Unnecessary bureaucracy hinders creativity, growth, justice and the attainment of peace.

Success comes from closing the gap between who you are today and your ultimate potential.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you've lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that's good.

Time stood still so she learnt to alter her focus.

Consistency and acceleration are both key to sustaining success. One-day-wonder persons who slouch back to mediocrity will soon be forgotten.

Wisdom isn’t expensive, but ignorance is.

All battles are not created equal; a few offer good rewards and are worthy of your attention but most are a waste of your time, energy and focus.

The challenge therefore, as you strive for success, is to make it a habit to live your life on purpose. You must learn to make deliberate plans and then practice the art and science of doing things on purpose.

Time is an illusion, only the keepers of the illusion are real, and the reality they have spun, keeps us, until we set upon the path of the dream.

Your new challenge is to redesign your time allocations. Your strategic focus determines where your time resources will be mainly invested. Prioritise acting out your own script, make your own movie instead of spending too much time watching others at work through the TV. It is surprising the number of unsuccessful people who spend all their time resources on the social media platforms following the lives of the successful. Make the news, be the leader and let others follow you. Align you priorities and balance your activities.

Be specific about what you want. Decide, define, describe, discuss and develop your plans and then act on them.

Worry is stressing about a situation that may or may not occur and it’s always in the negative sense.

But very few ordeals are redemptive and I doubt if the descent into hell teaches anything new. It can only hasten processes which are already in existence, and usually this just means that it degrades. You see, in hell one lacks the energy for any good change. This indeed is the meaning of hell.

As plants do not grow in the dark, never allow yourself to be in someone’s shadow.

Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.

Would God be a frequent contact or an in case of emergency in your phone? If he is only an in case of emergency, he will you in different emergencies so he can be frequently contacted.

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more.

Everyone has the Capacity to Succeed…Ceteris Paribus!

The moment we accept our pain is the moment we release our suffering. Suffering is created when we offer life resistance, and what we resist most are the experiences that bring us pain.

Self discovery is the most empowering time of your life, you remember who you are and you become the best version of yourself but what they forget to tell you is, to get to a point of pleasure you must face the pain.

The results you are churning out are a direct or indirect reflection of what you allowed into your life. Unlearning what you already know and practice is no easy task, but sometimes it’s necessary for the programming or re-programming that must take place for success to be made deliberate.

Bathing is not negotiable! So is brushing your teeth and washing your underwear, so that you always have a fresh inviting scent around you. People should want to be around you, not avoid you because of unfriendly odours coming out of your mouth, shoes or armpits. Do the best with what you have; even the old can be made clean and hygienic to improve your image.

Hate, just like love, is a propulsion force; it is also, to the unwise, a defining matter - On Hate.

Do not define your success in the context of just one situation or challenge you are currently battling or pursuing.

Learn to accept the inevitability of difference between the self-view & others' image of us. Be willing to take this as an opportunity to grow consciousness. Have clarity to know when others' view is projection of their own shadow. Summon courage to endure growth pains. Life is simple.

Humour, like any life skill, is learnable. If others can learn it, so can you.

Don't let what you thought you were yesterday keep you from becoming what you're meant to be today.

The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly.

John was still making comments regarding violent things that he shouldn't, but I hoped he was just being a big mouth. Nobody was going to listen to me anyway.