Top 100 Growth Learning Quotes
#1. Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
Alan Cohen
#2. The blank page is the great equalizer and grand opportunity for continued learning and growth.
K.J. Kilton
#4. Resistance to change should be a thing of the past if we could develop growth mindsets and create organizations with growth cultures.
Paul Gibbons
#6. Average people have a world view that says being comfortable with who and where they are in life is the key to happiness. The great ones have a world view that says happiness is learning, growing and becoming.
Steve Siebold
#7. All knowledge pursued merely for the enrichment of personal learning and the accumulation of personal treasure leads you away from the path; but all knowledge pursued for growth to ripeness within the process of human ennoblement and cosmic development brings you a step forward.
Rudolf Steiner
#8. God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life; 'Ego' is whatever within you stops you taking it.
Oli Anderson
#9. It is essential that we develop a learning space where failure is positive, as it is a catalyst for growth and change. Students need to recognize that taking a risk and not succeeding does not mean they are failing: It means they need to try another way. After
Starr Sackstein
#10. When we push for immediate results and instant healing, we never inhabit the important in-between phase, which is where much of the learning and growth actually happen.
Bo Forbes
#11. We seek to understand Jiu Jitsu as a vehicle to understand ourselves. We have different explicit goals, from getting in shape, learning self-defense or competition, but tacitly we all seek mastery of ourselves.
Chris Matakas
#12. When we harm others we harm ourselves; when we help others we help ourselves.
Bryant McGill
#13. Often times of crisis are times of discovery, periods when we cannot maintain our old ways of doing things and enter into a steep learning curve. Sometimes it takes a crisis to initiate growth.
Rachel Naomi Remen
#14. It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that insures your growth.
Frederick William Robertson
#15. The students with growth mindset completely took charge of their learning and motivation.
Carol S. Dweck
#16. Life isn't meant to be fun." "Well, sure it is. It is meant to be exactly that. Growth is fun. Learning is fun. Challenges and the rising above them is fun. If you knew all the answers, would you even bother with questions anymore?
Elle Casey
#17. You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
Abraham Maslow
#18. The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#19. Life is a procession of painful lessons, and how precious those lessons are; so precious that we rejoice in the bitter-sweet gift of life.
Bryant McGill
#20. Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. Intellectual growth is a function of learning. Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.
John Bevere
#21. We can all make the world a better place through the moment-to-moment decisions we make as we interact with people.
Morton Shaevitz
#22. The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.
John C. Maxwell
#23. People have put a lot of faith in the government's ability to get growth going in China. People have this, what I think, illusion that there are six people in China who really have their hand on every button. And what we're learning is, it's a very big economy and they're not that good at it.
David Wessel
#24. We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
Rick Warren
#25. One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.
Michael Sandel
#26. I'm a big believer in growth. Life is not about achievement, it's about learning and growth, and developing qualities like compassion, patience, perseverance, love, and joy, and so forth. And so if that is the case, then I think our goals should include something which stretches us.
Jack Canfield
#27. If we go in to each situation that life throws at us with an attitude that we can
learn from it then we will never be truly defeated.
Oli Anderson
#28. The extent of neural growth and learning during sensitive periods results in early experience having a disproportionate impact on the shaping of our brains.
Louis Cozolino
#29. It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.
Bruce Lee
#30. It's happened. It's in the past. You can't change it. You are not broken. Learn from the past, then build from it.
Tony Curl
#31. Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.
Ashok Kallarakkal
#32. The great teachers believe in the growth of the intellect and talent, and they are fascinated with the process of learning.
Carol S. Dweck
#33. Growing up is, at heart, the process of learning to take responsibility for whatever happens in your life. To choose growth is to embrace a love that heals.
Bell Hooks
#34. Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
David Hume
#35. Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
Andy Hargreaves
#36. I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.
C. JoyBell C.
#37. When you keep explaining and rehashing you just keep your mistake alive. Learn your lesson and adjust your behavior and move forward.
Bryant McGill
#38. If you have a deep desire to move forward, a way is being prepared for you.
Bryant McGill
#39. Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah said, "Where there is no money, there is no learning." The rabbis explain that unless people's stomachs are full and satisfied, they cannot study, grow spiritually, and do good works.
H.W. Charles
#40. We may have to struggle to achieve our goals, but our struggles may yield as much growth as our learning. The strengths we develop in overcoming challenges will be with us in the eternities to come.
Dallin H. Oaks
#41. Human interaction. The most complicated form of happiness I will never figure out.
Charlotte Eriksson
#42. When you abbreviate your learning, you abbreviate your growth. Expand your knowledge and you keep growing taller and fatter than your limitations.
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.
Anonymous
#44. Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.
Shannon L. Alder
#45. We learn to believe by believing. We learn to love by loving. The practice of acting on a certain thing, even (or especially) when feeling is absent, embodies the entire "how" of growth.
Eugenia Price
#46. I am slowly coming to the conclusion that it's more important to learn to work with what you've got, under the circumstances you've been given, than wishing for different ones.
Charlotte Eriksson
#47. In my experience one thing you don't learn from is anything anyone set up to be a lesson; what you are to know you pick up as you go along.
Elizabeth Bowen
#48. Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of the value of school education is the extent in which it creates a desire for continuous growth and supplies means for making the desire effective in fact.
John Dewey
#49. Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
Andre Gide
#50. Lifelong learning is like a never ending personal revolution.
Bryant McGill
#51. Professional development is a collective resource, not a personal prerogative. Peer engagement forges powerful links between teacher learning and student growth.
Laura Lipton
#52. Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!
Auliq Ice
#53. To stay relevant, you must keep your career in permanent beta. That means committing to a lifetime of learning and professional growth, a lifetime of strategic
Jay Samit
#54. Most arguments are about programming; most resolutions are reached through a process of unlearning then relearning.
Oli Anderson
#55. Adolescence can be a time of turmoil and turbulence, of stress and storm. Rebellion against authority and against convention is to be expected and tolerated for the sake of learning and growth.
Haim Ginott
#57. Life is about discovering things worth dying for.
Criss Jami
#58. We believe growth and learning are uncomfortable so it's going to happen here - you're going to feel that way. We want you to know that it's normal and it's an expectation here. You're not alone and we ask that you stay open and lean into it.
Brene Brown
#59. Languages happily restrict the mind to what is of its own native growth and fitted for it, as rivers and mountains bond countries; or the empire of learning, as well as states, would become unwieldy and overgrown.
William Hazlitt
#60. When you are the central character in a seemingly boiling pit of "busy-ness" the time will come when the pace of decline cannot be countered. You build yourself the circumstances of ultimate failure by failing to grow, by failing to act on your learnings.
Tony Curl
#61. Peace does not demand that everyone like or want the same reality.
Alaric Hutchinson
#62. There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming.
Bryant McGill
#63. At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.
Satya Nadella
#64. In your very imperfections you will find the basis for your firm, way-seeking mind.
Shunryu Suzuki
#65. A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.
Brooke Waggoner
#66. Learning is the source of growth and we become stagnant without it.
Euginia Herlihy
#67. We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!
Auliq Ice
#68. It is important that you never place limitations on learning, personal growth, traveling, reading and making a positive difference in your life and others.
Tasha Hoggatt
#69. A person who cultivates any interest in self-improvement will necessary encounter successes and failures, both of which life lessons can be useful to remember when seeking distant mileposts. Failure stimulates evaluation and new learning. Success stimulates development and retention of good habits.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#70. I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.
Simeon Kondev
#71. Debate is an attempt to cling to the illusion of control provided by a point of view designed to keep the ego in place; dialogue is an attempt to dance with the unknown at the risk of losing what we think we know.
Oli Anderson
#72. Sine doctrina vita est quasi mortis imago [Without learning, life is but the image of death]
Dionysius Cato
#73. If the past never helped you why would you ever take it into the future with you?
Shannon L. Alder
#74. Guilt and Regret always pulls one down.
They have an impact like that of gravity.
They heavy you like few tons of concrete,
Therefore,
Instead of growing, moving on and learning from your mistakes,
You will wine and dine with Would Have's and Could Have's.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#75. Oh darling,
The darkness is a gift,
And when you realise this,
You will never be defeated
Again.
Nikki Rowe
#76. The constant desire to win is a very American kind of trouble. Less glamorous gains made along the way--learning, wisdom, growth, and confidence, dealing with failure--aren't given the same respect because they can't be given a grade.
William Zinsser
#77. Far more important than the tribulations and heartaches, the thrills, merriment, and pleasures of life is what you learn from it all. It isn't the tunnel we pass through that matters, it's what emerges on the other side.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#78. Blessed are those who can find light in dark places, courageous enough to feel when it's time to reflect & hopeful enough to believe when all seems impossible. We don't have enough pioneers like this, and I wonder if it's because they were afraid to live and afraid to learn?
Nikki Rowe
#79. Write hand-written notes daily and commit to supporting the growth and self-esteem of children, because it makes such a big difference in terms of their capacity for learning.
Debra Messing
#80. Change comes from confrontation. You have to be confronted or confront yourself.
Bryant McGill
#81. Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful setting. Most people learn best by being "with it," yet school makes them identify their personal, cognitive growth with elaborate planning and manipulation.
Ivan Illich
#83. It bothers me when people have no problem paying for all they can eat but have problems investing in all they can be.
Saji Ijiyemi
#84. I am still learning, for the Christian life is one of constant growth.
Billy Graham
#85. It is very humbling to see my own character defects in someone who annoys me. At the end of the day, I realize they have actually prompted positive change in me.
Auliq Ice
#86. Listen to learn. Learn to earn!
Rob Liano
#87. The journey itself is going to change you, so you don't have to worry about memorizing the route we took to accomplish that change.
Daniel Quinn
#88. A goal of education is. to assist growth toward greater complexity and integration and to assist in the process of self-organization - to modify individuals capacity to modify themselves.
Reuven Feuerstein
#89. We learn from conflicts only when we are willing to do so.
Sharon Salzberg
#90. I don't need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something I never take for granted.
Shannon L. Alder
#91. We must have faith in ourselves and our decisions, as well as trusting that we have the strength and ability to handle whatever consequences our decision may bring. Trust that whatever result your leap of faith may bring, you will gain much from it in terms of growth and learning.
Amanda Harvey
#92. I no longer think that laziness is all about being idle. I now know when I become lazy- when I stop learning new things, and cease to grow.
Assegid Habtewold
#93. I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.
Anthony Michael Hall
#94. Most great learning happens in groups. Collaboration is the stuff of growth.
Ken Robinson
#95. Change is only another word for growth, another synonym for learning.
Charles Handy
#96. I've only been to jail a few times, but in several different countries, at that. No, I've only been to jail a few times. But I still claim the ability to write a "serious" novel.
Roman Payne
#98. When it comes to desire, it's not a matter of avoiding desire, but rather learning to discern those desires that are helpful and necessary for your growth - those that serve your soul and help you continue to thrive - from those that do not.
Rod Stryker
#99. It's taken years, but part of my own personal growth has involved deciding that I can learn something from even the most annoying person.
Auliq Ice
#100. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.
M. Scott Peck
