Quotes about Growth

The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.

We can't go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa.

There might be exceptions—and if so, you might rethink their employment—but few people really want to be mediocre. Most of your team members want to make a valued contribution—to find purpose in their work.

Take an inside-out approach, and read with the purpose in mind of sharing or discussing what you learn with someone else within 48 hours after you learn it.

Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits

it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

We decided to relax and get out of his way and let his own personality emerge.

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. It's inside-out.

in our relationships with others. It involves mutual learning, mutual influence, mutual benefits.

The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.

Integrity is, fundamentally, the value we place on ourselves. It's our ability to make and keep commitments to ourselves, to "walk our talk." It's honor with self, a fundamental part of the Character Ethic, the essence of proactive growth.

It is not what others do or even our own mistakes that hurt us the most; it is our response to those things.