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.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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?

The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement.

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.

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.

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

There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy.

The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant.

Joy is the evidence of inner growth.

If I get up every day with the optimism that I have the capacity for growth, then that’s success for me.

If you don't give anything, don't expect anything. Success is not coming to you, you must come to it.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

Nature shrinks as capital grows. The growth of the market cannot solve the very crisis it creates.

There was a time when I had all the answers. My real growth began when I discovered that the questions to which I had the answers were not the important questions.

We cannot choose between [economic] growth and sustainability - we must have both

If you want to have more, you have to become more. For things to change, you have to change. For things to get better, you have to become better. If you improve, everything will improve for you. If you grow, your money will grow; your relationships, your health, your business and every external effect will mirror that growth in equal correlation.

The degree to which I can create relationships, which facilitate the growth of others as separate persons, is a measure of the growth I have achieved in myself.

A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.

By improving yourself, the world is made better. Be not afraid of growing too slowly. Be afraid only of standing still.

When you can completely love your ego unconditionally and accept it as part of how you express in this life, you'll no longer have a problem with it. It won't impede your growth - on the contrary, it will be an asset.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

The purpose of the corporation must be redefined as creating shared value, not just profit per se. This will drive the next wave of innovation and productivity growth in the global economy.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Inclusion is not a matter of political correctness. It is the key to growth.

Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation.

Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.

Becoming is better than being

Government is not the generator of economic growth; working people are.

A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.

Technological innovation is indeed important to economic growth and the enhancement of human possibilities.