Quotes about Growth
A seed only realizes its potential the day you bury it.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
— John Calvin
It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents.
— Stephen Hawking
Anyone who endeavors to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened. You are embarking on something that is going to take the whole of you, brains and all.
— CS Lewis
The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
— Erica Jong
A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.
— Amelia Earhart
As our kindness for ourselves grows, so does our kindness for other people.
— Pema Chodron
I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
— Jonathan Edwards
Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we do not possess in ourselves.
— Henry Cloud
When I was learned, knowledge was everything. Now that I'm a learner, kindness is everything.
— Leonard Sweet
Truett was more interested in the business growing people than he was in people growing the business. And that's exactly how his business grew. When you are FOR the people in and around your business, the people in and around your business become FOR you.
— Jeff Henderson