Quotes about Growth

The depth of your spirit will determine the height of your success.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." —Phillips Brooks

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more things you will have to express gratitude for.

Regardless of your lot in life, build something beautiful on it.

If you pay that price daily by planning and preparing and working to become the right kind of person, then you can legitimately expect to have all that life has to offer.

What you get by reaching your destination is not nearly as important as what you will become by reaching your destination.

Surround yourself with people who want the best for you and the people you love!

You are what you are and where you are because of what has gone into your mind; you change what you are and where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

But did it grow ninety feet in six weeks or was it ninety feet in five years? You think about it for a moment, and you know it was ninety feet in five years because had there been any year they did not water it and fertilize it, there would have been no Chinese bamboo tree.

When I discipline myself to eat properly, live morally, exercise regularly, grow mentally and spiritually, and not put any drugs or alcohol in my body, I have given myself the freedom to be at my best, perform at my best, and reap all the rewards that go along with it.

In those early days, God gave us wonderful experiences to confirm our faith, then sooner or later, He chose a more difficult curriculum for us. Struggles, disappointments, and misunderstandings about the nature of the Christian life threatened our fledgling faith, but the winter season provided the opportunity to go deeper and grow closer to God.

You don't build a business. You build people, then people build the business.