Growth quotes

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

I think New York has evolved in my work just the way the city has.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

I believe growth should be constant, sustained and inclusive. It’s only meaningful if these three things are there. Otherwise they’re just economic figures.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Africa will thrive.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

There is no education like adversity.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

Let the path be open to talent.

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

What’s dangerous is not to evolve.

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.