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  • Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. - Pearl S Buck


  • The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. - Confucius


  • In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. - Les Brown


  • The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. - Gilbert K Chesterton


  • Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. - Noam Chomsky


  • All of us need to grow continuously in our lives. - Les Brown


  • We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't. - Frank A Clark


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


  • The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. - Marcus T Cicero


  • You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. - George Bernard Shaw


  • Close scrutiny will show that most ''crisis situations'' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. - Maxwell Maltz


  • Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home. - Dhammapada


  • What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow; nothing can prevent it. - Mark Twain


  • Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. - Brian Tracy


  • When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. - Robert Louis Stevenson


  • There is no growth without discontent. - unknown


  • Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. - George Shinn



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