Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no mater how slow.
What Is Growth Quotes
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. — Epictetus
The single biggest obstacle to us getting what we really need and want in life is right here. It's ourselves. — William Ury
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong.
You have to go through those mountains and valleys - because that's what life is: soul growth. — Wayne Newton
Be very careful what you say to yourself because someone very important is listening . . . YOU! — John Assaraf
I have come to the conclusion that the greatest obstacle to getting what we really want in life is not the other party, as difficult as he or she can be. The biggest obstacle is actually ourselves. — William Ury
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress. You're still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
Our challenge in life is to use the abilities we have, and to compensate for the abilities we don’t have. Successful people compensate for what they don’t have. Unsuccessful people make excuses, blame everyone else and never get past the deficiencies. — Tim Grover
You can get good at anything you set your mind to, it's just not going to be easy and it's not going to be fast. But the willingness to put in that work is what's going to separate you from everybody else. — Tom Bilyeu
When we think of failure; failure will be ours. If we remain undecided nothing will ever change. All we need to do is want to achieve something great and then simply to do it. Never think of failure, for what we think, will come about. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The fact is that five years ago I was, as near as possible, a different person to what I am tonight. I, as I am now, didn't exist at all. Will the same thing happen in the next five years? I hope so. — Siegfried Sassoon
Grow Slow Quotes
Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf. — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf. — Susan Coolidge
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow. — A. C. Benson
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents. — Billie Joe Armstrong
A word grows to a thought – a thought to an idea – an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveler loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take. — Beryl Markham
Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young. — James Taylor
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be only afraid of standing still.
The children who are appreciated for what they are, even if they are homely, or clumsy, or slow, will grow up with confidence in themselves and happy. They will have a spirit that will make the best of all the capacities that they do have and of all the opportunities that come their way. — Benjamin Spock
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends. — Shel Silverstein
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. — John Jay Chapman
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon! — John F. Kennedy
You complain and demand zero compromise - so the GOP obstructs Obama so the economy doesn't improve - then you complain and demand even more zero compromise. Then you get to blame Obama for the slow recovery, which is sorta like John Wilkes Booth blaming Lincoln for missing the end of a play. — John Fugelsang
Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements . . . are adopted with hesitation, reluctance, and slow gradations. — Alexander Hamilton
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down — Bruce Lee
With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. — Stephen Hawking
Theres only so much growing you can do in your comfort zone.
The student's job is to stay open-minded, to quell the knee-jerk defensiveness we all possess in the face of suggestions for improvement, and to maintain patience when faced with a process that is often slow, confusing, and frustrating. — Renee Fleming
I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way. — Amanda Beard
The new prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, while a vast improvement on his predecessor is not doing much, if anything, to slow that process done. — Justine Larbalestier
If improv gets reckless, you can feel it. A lot of shows try to do that, I find. When improv is done sloppily. It betrays the story. It can slow down the energy of the story you're telling. — Steve Dildarian
Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much. — John Wayne
It's better to have died a small child than to be a politician who gets caught in a scandal during a slow news month. — Lewis Grizzard
The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs. One step at a time.
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins
We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music. — Albert Einstein
Growth happens when you fail and own it, not until. Everyone who blames stays the same.
Go fast enough to get there, but slow enough to see. — Jimmy Buffett
Show me who your friends are, and I will tell you what you are. — Unknown Author
I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris... and then I will walk. — Shane Koyczan
Sail the main course in a simple sturdy craft. Keep her well stocked with short stories and long laughs. Go fast enough to get there but slow enough to see. Moderation seems to be the key. — Jimmy Buffett
Slow Progress Quotes
As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange
The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great. — Oscar Wilde
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself! — Plato
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step. — Samuel Smiles
Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it. — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Some people don't like you because your strength remind them of their weakness. Don't let the hate slow you down.
But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way. — Frances Perkins
It is a mistake to hire huge numbers of people to get a complicated job done. Numbers will never compensate for talent in getting the right answer (two people who don't know something are no better than one), will tend to slow down progress, and will make the task incredibly expensive. — Elon Musk
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress! — Napoleon Bonaparte
If we contrast the rapid progress of this mischievous discovery [gunpowder] with the slow and laborious advances of reason, science, and the arts of peace, a philosopher, according to his temper, will laugh or weep at the folly of mankind. — Edward Gibbon
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them. — Alexander Graham Bell
Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summerand wither in the frosts. The Red Cross is a part of us--it has come to stay--and like the sturdy oak, its spreading branches shall yet encompass and shelter the relief of the nation. — Clara Barton
We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth. — Mary Antin
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
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay. — Tacitus
I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know. — Marion Milner
Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries. — William George Jordan
Spiritual growth is more than procedure, it’s a wild search for God in the midst of the tangled jungle of our souls, a search for which involves a volatile mix of messy reality, wild freedom, frustrating stuckness, increasing slowness and a healthy dose of gratitude — Mike Yaconelli
I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening. — Mariel Hemingway
Recent warming coincides with rapid growth of human-made greenhouse gases. The observed rapid warming gives urgency to discussions about how to slow greenhouse gas emissions. — James Hansen
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. — William Pitt
There is slow growth, but it is positive slow growth. At the same time, ratios of debt-to-incomes go down. That's a beautiful deleveraging. — Ray Dalio
I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity. — Benjamin Disraeli
Confidence is a plant of slow growth. — Anna Leonowens
Knowledge is a plant of slow growth. — Thomas Cooper
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. — George Henry Lewes
We know taxes slow down economic growth, so if you add a carbon tax you have to also minus other taxes. You can't take more money out of people's pockets. I don't think you can build a consensus in this country about environmental policy if you're going to make people poor. — Christy Clark
Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart. — William Pitt
Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth. — Paul Ryan
Slow growth and inflation have a tendency to accompany large deficits and increasing debt as a percentage of GDP. — Bill Gross
Murder is a plant of slow growth. — Mignon G. Eberhart
Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years. — Alexander Graham Bell
The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth. — Todd Tiahrt
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. — Muhammad Iqbal
Our economy continues to struggle with slow economic growth, high unemployment and stagnant wages. "Obama care's" raising costs. That's making it harder for small businesses to hire. In short, it's a train wreck. — John Boehner
If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly. — Benjamin Disraeli
Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Reincarnation is the evolution of spirit through matter. Over thousands and millions of lifetimes, the soul evolves. It comes into the light. The growth is slow. — Frederick Lenz
Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption. — Sherwood Boehlert
True religion is slow in growth, and, when once planted, is difficult of dislodgement; but its intellectual counterfeit has no root in itself: it springs up suddenly, it suddenly withers. — John Henry Newman
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom — Samuel Johnson
The 5-year mean global temperature has been flat for the last decade, which we interpret as a combination of natural variability and a slow down in the growth rate of net climate forcing. — James Hansen
We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our environment and securing a sustainable future for us all — Lionel Shriver
I don't think any of us can do much about the rapid growth of new technology. A new technology helps to fuel the economy, and any discussion of slowing its growth has to take account of economic consequences. However, it is possible for us to learn how to control our own uses of technology. — Neil Postman
Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all. — Theodore Roosevelt
I cannot give them my confidence; pardon me, gentlemen, confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom: youth is the season of credulity. — William Pitt The Elder Chatham
Hatred was a plant of slow growth. — Eleanor Dark
It is the glory of English Law, that its roots are sunk deep into the soil of national history; that it is the slow product of the age long growth of the national life. — Edward Jenks
The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal. — Sumner Redstone
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
If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me - although, in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment. — Tim Robbins
It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down. — Jack Ma
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