Quotes about Growth
profits by their own mistakes and, through observation, by the mistakes of others. In every failure and mistake may be found the seed of an equivalent success.
— Napoleon Hill
most people never learn the art of transmuting their strongest emotions into dreams of a constructive nature.
— Napoleon Hill
Millions of children have had their imagination dwarfed and retarded by parents who removed as much as possible of the urge of necessity. By "making it easy" for your child you may be depriving the world of a genius. Bear in mind the fact that most of the progress that man has made came as the result of bitter, biting NECESSITY!
— Napoleon Hill
The river never changes. it may alter it's path a bit, but it never changes. It's us who change. We come back here and we're are different. Not it. Form can't be extracted from the essence like some broth reduction. This river's taught me a good bit. Probably why I don't leave here. It winds, weaves, snakes around. Rarely goes the same twice. But, in the end, it always ends up in the same place and the gift is never the same. ...it's the journey that matters.
— Charles Martin
Someone has said, Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance. I agree.
— Charles Swindoll
Biblical wisdom is a process that begins with gaining knowledge, then choosing to set aside our former ways of thinking, and then putting this new knowledge into practice.
— Charles Swindoll
Sometime in my ministry, I am going to gather up enough courage to have a testimony time where the only thing we'll share is our failures.
— Charles Swindoll
Someone has said,"Education is going from an unconscious to conscious awareness of one's ignorance."..No one has a corner on wisdom. All the name-dropping in the world does not heighten the significance of our character. If anything, it reduces it. Our acute need is to cultivate a willingness to learn and to remain teachable.
— Charles Swindoll
Thoughts, positive or negative, grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition.
— Charles Swindoll
Everything that happens to me is designed to better prepare me for serving others, everything!
— Charles Swindoll
Water that's not moving becomes stagnant. And if there's not someone pouring into you, the pitcher gets dusty. A person is most satisfied and most useful when she is both giving and receiving. In marriage. In life. In friendship. With God too.
— Chris Fabry
And God has this funny way of stretching and changing and pushing us toward things we don't want to face. I don't think the past is something we deal with as much as it deals with us.
— Chris Fabry