All growth is a leap in the dark.

Track and field was very big when I was growing up.

I’m always looking forward. I don’t dwell on things.

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

Gradual growth in grace, growth in knowledge, growth in faith, growth in love, growth in holiness, growth in humility, growth in spiritual-mindedness – all this I see clearly taught and urged in Scripture, and clearly exemplified in the lives of many of God’s saints. But sudden, instantaneous leaps from conversion to consecration I fail to see in the Bible.

The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion — whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside — such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.

Let us never measure our religion by that of others, and think we are doing enough if we have gone beyond our neighbors.”

With the growth of Harvard from a small provincial college into a great University, a unique paranoia has swept the ranks of local officialdom, furrowing brows throughout University Hall. The lurking fear is that somehow, in the operations of the gigantic administrative machine, a student might get lost in the shuffle.

HGH was responsible for human growth, and lack of it caused dwarfism, or too much of it caused NBA players.

The next attempt may not be perfect, but the second is better than the first, and the third is even better than the second.

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.

It was bewildering. He was sprawling through solidity. And ever the light grew brighter. Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on

How glibly and thoughtlessly that phrase ‘make us grow’ slides off our tongues. As if growth were always a happy, shapely matter: leaves unfurling, blossoms opening, hearts and minds joyously stretching toward more light. Whereas the fact of the matter was, when we asked for growth, we were asking for a mess. Exploding tempers, privately nursed little petri dishes of resentments, insecure stumblings into dangerous new places.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

Instinct and law demanded of him obedience. But growth demanded disobedience. His mother and fear impelled him to keep away from the white wall. Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light. So there was no damming up the tide of life that was rising within him – rising with every mouthful of meat he swallowed, with every breath he drew. In the end, one day, fear and obedience were swept away by the rush of life, and the cub straddled and sprawled toward the entrance.

The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls’ office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.

Change can be uncomfortable, but it is necessary for personal and societal growth.

Change is the catalyst for growth and progress. The greatest transformations often come from the most unlikely circumstances.

Growth is life, and life is for ever destined to make for light.

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

In the game of life, survival is only part of the battle.

I have a lot of self-belief, and I think it will happen. I think I will just get better and better. It’s what great players do; they don’t let up on anything. And I wouldn’t do that anyway.

Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism.

I was never afraid of failure. I always saw it as an opportunity to learn and grow.

Being grown up kinda sucks and I’m really just missing the simple times.

I have always felt that there is no substitute of experience.

In the long run, free trade is a policy that is likely to condemn developing countries to specialize in sectors that offer low productivity growth and thus low growth in living standards.

The top 10 per cent of the US population appropriated 91 per cent of income growth between 1989 and 2006, while the top 1 per cent took 59 per cent.

Running the company for the shareholders often reduces its long-term growth potential.

On Tuesday, when it hails and snows, The feeling on me grows and grows That hardly anybody knows If those are these or these are those.

Our real journey in life is interior; It is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts. Never was it more necessary to respond to that action.

The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Relationships are assignments for optimal growth and healing.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

We shall have no better conditions in the future if we are satisfied with all those which we have at present

People are not remembered by how few times they fail, but by how often they succeed. Every wrong step is another step forward

Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forwardsiscou

I’ve never made a mistake. I’ve only learned from experience

Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path

May our heart’s garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality

Learn from it and let it go

Every struggle in life is just another opportunity for growth.

Our growth in grace, our joy, our usefulness,–all depend upon our union with Christ. It is by communion with Him, daily, hourly,–by abiding in Him, –that we are to grow in grace.

There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden… The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

Every challenge is an opportunity for growth.

None of us will become perfect in a day or a month or a year. We will not accomplish it in a lifetime, but we can begin now, starting with our more obvious weaknesses and gradually converting them into strengths.

Peace is for the purification of one’s mind. Power is for the growth of the community. Having established the community with power, one should then establish supreme peace.

Growth that adds volume without improving productivity is fat. Growth that diminishes productivity is cancer.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement; and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

But the perception of life as an organic unity is a slow achievement, and depends for its growth on a people’s entry into the main current of world-events.

When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity.”

I pay my mama bills, I ain’t got no time to chill

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential

Growth can be messy.

Spiritual growth involves giving up the stories of your past so the universe can write a new one.

We are firmly convinced that private capital, Chinese as well as foreign, must be given liberal opportunities for broad development in postwar China; for China needs industrial growth.

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives. For if we’re never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life – as an artist and as a person – has definitely got me smarter and wiser.

Growth doesn’t come with the people you expect to grow with you.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Recognize how every moment of our journey is an important part of the growth of our soul.

A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

The main reason for the development of society and the happiness of the people is the gradual growth of the public spirit and the increase of public virtue

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

Challenge yourself; it’s the only path which leads to growth.

Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day

If you love the truth, you’ll trust it – that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run

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.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

In reality, I never want to grow up.

There are times when you are growing through experiences, but sometimes there is a point of diminishing returns in terms of growth.

Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

If you focus on what you left behind, you will never see what lies ahead.

The best way to know life is to love many things.

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself.

Resist much, obey little.

Only thing I got to do is be a better father to my children! Everything else gone fall in place!

Nothing happens without personal transformation.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.

People quickly grow accustomed to the incredible if they are exposed to it on a daily basis.

People didn’t believe me when I told them I practiced harder than I played, but, it was true. That’s where my comfort zone was created by the time . The game came, all I had to do was react to what my body was already accustomed to doing.

I believe that I’ve improved a lot as a player and a person, because being surrounded by great players on a daily basis helps your development out on the pitch.

Every day, you have the power to choose our better history—by opening your hearts and minds, by speaking up for what you know is right.

Success is only meaningful–and enjoyable–if it feels like your own.

Failure is an important part of your growth and developing resilience. Don’t be afraid to fail.

Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination.

When you are struggling and you start thinking about giving up, I want you to remember something that my husband and I have talked about since we first started this journey nearly a decade ago, something that has carried us through every moment in this White House and every moment of our lives, and that is the power of hope—the belief that something better is always possible if you’re willing to work for it and fight for it.

The world might not have changed, but the way we thought about it, and our ability to work within it, had.

I’ve grown, and my passion for music has grown. I’ve become more advanced and I’ve enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development

I always want to be the best at what I do. As a kid, whatever I was doing, if I was playing football or whatever I was applying my energy to at the time, I always wanted to do it to the best of my abilities. And I was always interested in finding out how I could do it better.

I want to be the best at everything I do, not just driving, everything.

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

People don’t care about what you say; they care about what you build.

I just want to make sure that we’re pushing the envelope on all the things that we do.

I grew up listening to everybody.

Love is an endless horizon.

I appreciate the support I get from the people! Y’all motivate me to go harder.

They just wanna talk about my past. They don’t wanna accept the fact that I’m a boss.

Freedom is like poetry. It does not mean anything unless you live it.

We have on this earth what makes life worth living.

Every time I plant a tree, I plant myself.

When you lose, you get up, you make mistakes and you learn. And then you become a better player.

Nothing is lost in this world, except for seeds.

We are a people of words. We are not responsible for your ignorance of us.

Little by little, I’m getting better all the time. I’ve not lost the passion to play.

I grow as a player yearly and do not get stuck in a rut. I improve my game in every way possible.