Growth Quotes

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

Death, Birth, Cease

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Viktor E. Frankl

Power, Freedom, Between

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan

Small, Almost, United

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
John F. Kennedy

Freedom, Enemy, Conformity

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.
Bruce Lee

Human, Honest, Child

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

True, Violence, Spirit

The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
John F. Kennedy

Strength, Decisions, Risk

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

Friendship, True, Before

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friends, Seen, Successive

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

Success, Words, Progress

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

May, Down, Moral

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Oscar Wilde

Ambition, Germ, Proceeds

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan

Great, Human, Wonder

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
Judith Viorst

Music, Laughter, Friends

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.
Plato

Help, Person, Die

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Napoleon Hill

Strength, Struggle, Through

We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
Virginia Satir

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

Freedom, Enemy, Cannot

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Lao Tzu

Key, Higher, Awareness

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow

Change, Forward, Movement

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats

Happiness, Happy, Growing

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington

Friendship, Before, Adversity

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
George Washington

Liberty, Begins, Plant

The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
Aleister Crowley

Life, Change, Experience

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Carl Rogers

Change, Person, May

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.
Barack Obama

Moment, Able, Few

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Frederick Douglass

Great, Lost, Battle

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
Henry Miller

Experience, Dark, Act

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Effort, Means

The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.
Warren Buffett

Today, Yesterday, Profit

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