5,371 Quotes About Growth

Death is the alpha and omega of destiny. It can excite its flames or stifle them out. How it affects your destiny depends on you. Can you endure it and grow? Or will you let it destroy you?

You should train disciples and followers to work and perform better than you did

My advice to students is always the same, "Hit the Books - Before the Books hit you!

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.

The Christian life is not a straight ascension to becoming like Christ, it is a journey filled with stalls and starts, great leaps forward and periods of relative stagnation.

Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive

Self-evaluation and assessment should be a major part of our lives as believers

This is what a control freak learns inside the compressed otherworld of college, maybe above all else: There are simply other ways of being.