No Growth Quotes

#1. Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.

Abigail Thomas

#2. It's a false choice to say we either have job safety or job growth. It's a false choice to suggest that the only way for a business to survive is to make sure workers have low wages and little or no benefits. There are ample models across this country where we've demonstrated the contrary.

Thomas Perez

#3. Life and Growth go hand in hand . For without growth there is no life .And without life there is no growth.

Jeff Lessard

#4. One individual can typically care for no more than 10 people. Creating a 1:10 people system from the beginning allows you to provide the depth of spiritual relationship and mentoring people need and desire, while also scaling for growth.

Bill Woolsey

#5. The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased
the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.

Raymond Chandler

#6. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. No person is ever wrong in how they experience their reality.

Alaric Hutchinson

#8. Tomorrow when you wake up, be aware of how you dress your thoughts and emotions, because at the end of the day no matter what you look like, if your inner being isn't beautiful, neither are you.

Nikki Rowe

#9. There's no question that California, in the last three or four years, has been privileged to add disproportionately to the economic growth of America, and to contribute to its technological productivity.

Gray Davis

#10. Like everything else in life, these questions have no easy answers.

P. Wish

#11. Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has ... topology ... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.

Raymond Louis Wilder

#12. And I hope above all you give your heart to someone again no matter how many broken promises you have recieved.

Nikki Rowe

#13. Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that - that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

Oprah Winfrey

#14. We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes ... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character.

Vince Lombardi

#15. Perfection is dangerous. It leaves no room for range.

Natasha Tsakos

#16. Life is constantly teaching us that we are mirrors of one another and that no one is an island!

Auliq Ice

#17. There is no growth without pain. No life without suffering.

Cynthia Eden

#18. Without trust, there can be no loyalty - and without loyalty, there can be no true growth.

Fred Reichheld

#19. No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

#20. Law firms can create environments for abusive relationships. This is especially true if an attorney has no self-direction, has no independent means of financial support, and has massive student loan indebtedness. You've basically made yourself an indentured servant.

Robin D. Hart

#21. There can be no growth for today and tomorrow by remaining where yesterday lives.

Karen Kingsbury

#22. Focus on faith and grow your roots strong and deep so no one can make you believe in something that is not good for your soul.

Molly Friedenfeld

#23. 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

#24. Death is the final stage of growth in this life. There is no total death. Only the body dies. The self or the spirit, or whatever you may wish to label it, is eternal. You may interpret this in any way that makes you comfortable.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#25. No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.

Charles Caleb Colton

#26. No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one's own culture but within oneself.

Barry Lopez

#27. Growth is a stupid goal. So, by the way, is no-growth.

Donella Meadows

#28. There are lots of bad things that can happen to a food economy that's both extensive and centralized. There's no substitute for petroleum. To have a growth economy based on a declining fuel supply is bound to be stressful.

Wendell Berry

#29. 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

#30. You can no longer hide from me. I am your soul ache come to guide you home.

Karen Clark

#31. There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan

#32. The griefs that have been hardest for me were the ones I didn't recognize as griefs, because they came in what were supposed to be the best times of my life. No one whispered in my ear that the best times, the ones that change our lives, are woven with the thread of loss.

Anna White

#33. The Universal Consciousness's feeling is unqualified love for all of its creatures,no matter how foolish and desperate they act.

David V. Gaggin

#34. 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

#35. Do not say I have no time to read.
Set a daily time (15-20 minutes)for reading.
Reading is rich source of wisdom and knowledge.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#36. Without growth we can't pay down our debt, and without growth there's no money for welfare.

Helle Thorning-Schmidt

#37. No matter how old you are or how long
or short!
you've been married, the day you accelerate your growth in the Lord is the day your marriage is positively impacted, improved, and strengthened!

Jim George

#38. All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge

#39. When you make the decision to start something new, first figure out the jobs you want to do. Then position yourself to play where no one else is playing.

Whitney Johnson

#40. Growth will be slower, no one denies that. But the question is: Where are the chances and opportunities now? I see some positive and some negative trends.

Zhang Xin

#41. No construction of thought represents a label, barrier, or a full stop. Each sentence, paragraph, and page represents an exploratory probe into the unknown; each statement is an act of experimentation, investigation, creation, and growth.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#42. It's a no-win argument - that business of what we're born with and what our environment does to us. And it's a boring argument, because it simplifies the mysteries that attend both our birth and our growth.

John Irving

#43. Forgiveness, no matter your motive, is a dynamic of mutual healing.

Bryant McGill

#44. There is no law of conservation which forces the growth of new centers of economic strength to be at the expense of existing centers.

Milton Friedman

#45. There is no more wild, free, vigorous growth of the forest, but everything is in pots or rows like a rococo garden ... The pupil is in the age of spontaneous variation which at no period of life is so great. He does not want a standardized, overpeptonized mental diet. It palls on his appetite.

G. Stanley Hall

#46. When we assign ourselves the mission of changing others who show no want or need to change, it blocks our spirit-it drains us-and prevents us from attracting into our lives that which we need to grow.

Charles F. Glassman

#47. Suffering is an essential component of life. No person escapes suffering, which is indivisible from life itself. Suffering is what places in in contact with the self; it is what allows us to understand the spiritual nature behind our existence.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#48. A positive mind-set says that you are not a victim to the whims of others or by circumstances over which you have no control.

John Patrick Hickey

#49. No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

Marc Andreessen

#50. You are in obscurity when you are still needed but no one cares a lot what you say or think, or even where you are working from. You have no voice or presence that makes you relevant. Grow your voice.

Archibald Marwizi

#51. The purpose of life is soul growth. We are here to become transcendent and to become one with God. There is no more to life than this.
In other words, we are here to love.

Sara Wiseman

#52. It's obviously a great sign of growth and success that the media no longer try to embody the bigness and diversity of the women's movement in one person. Only a diverse group can symbolize a movement.

Gloria Steinem

#53. I think we often hold heroines to an absurd standard. Be brave! Be wise! Always know what's in your heart and speak the truth of it! No and no and no. We fight to be brave. We learn to be wise. We struggle to know ourselves and voice what we want.

Leigh Bardugo

#54. No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.

Jeff Bezos

#55. Industries, unlike organisms, have no organic limits on their own growth; they are constantly in search of new markets, or of new ways to exploit old ones more effectively; as Karl Marx unsympathetically observed, they 'nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connexions everywhere.

Tim Wu

#56. The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip; while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks.

Joseph Conrad

#57. I started from B-grade films, and today I'm the number one actress of this country ... whereas other actresses, whom you might call my contemporaries, they have had no growth in whatever platform they were launched ... they are still there and have not risen to another platform.

Kangana Ranaut

#58. Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future.

T.A. Uner

#59. For getting a fine flourishing growth of stupidity there is nothing like pouring out on a mind a good amount of subjects in which it feels no interest.

George Eliot

#60. We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.

Karl-Johan Persson

#61. Hide in the morrow. No one will look for you there.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#62. It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere.

John Updike

#63. Adversity and challenges are life's way of creating strength. Adversity creates challenge, and challenge creates change, and change is absolutely necessary for growth. If there is no change and challenge, there can be no growth and development.

Willie Jolley

#64. It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

J. Reuben Clark

#65. Once divested of missionary virus, the cult of our gods gives no offence. It would be a peaceful age if this were recognized, and religion, Christian, communist or any other, were to rely on practice and not on conversion for her growth.

Freya Stark

#66. Some people insist on inviting me to their drama buffet ... No thanks! My soul hungers for nourishment and growth; it doesn't lust for poison and depletion.

Steve Maraboli

#67. Bless them. But don't spend too much time with them. Draw close to people who honor your no, who cheer you on for telling the truth, who value your growth more than they value their own needs getting met or their own pathologies celebrated. Our

Shauna Niequist

#68. What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets: May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.

Robert Browning

#69. I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.

Lillian E. Smith

#70. No circumstance would prevent over-population so effectually as a general raising of the customary standard of comfort among the poorer classes. If they had accustomed themselves to a more comfortable style of living, they would use every effort not again to sink below it.

Millicent Fawcett

#71. Real success sometimes involves saying no to growth, expansion and gain.

Bryant McGill

#72. The results you are churning out are a direct or indirect reflection of what you allowed into your life. Unlearning what you already know and practice is no easy task, but sometimes it's necessary for the programming or re-programming that must take place for success to be made deliberate.

Archibald Marwizi

#73. There is no growth in comfort, only complacency. True growth requires life's challenges to reveal and exercise our full potential.

Dionna L. Hayden

#74. The Obama administration's attempted short-term fixes, even with unprecedented monetary easing by the Federal Reserve, produced average GDP growth of just 2.2% over the past three years, and the consensus outlook appears no better for the year ahead.

Glenn Hubbard

#75. To make no decision in regard to the growth of authoritarian government is already a decision for it.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#76. If we look to the history of other nations, ancient or modern, we find no example of a growth so rapid, so gigantic, of a people so prosperous and happy.

James Monroe

#77. We are now forced to actively pursue our struggles. If we do not go out of our way to stretch our comfort zones and grow, no one nor nature will do it for us.

Chris Matakas

#78. No leader or organization can achieve breakout growth until it treats, "we've always done it this way" as an opportunity to think anew rather than as a reason to stop thinking. Keep in mind, tradition should be a guide, not a jailer.

Michael Josephson

#79. Internal growth and development were not entirely unaffected by my external environment. No amount of escapism, through either the physical or the mental outlets, could cushion me from the reality of what was taking place.

Sara Niles

#80. A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

Bruce Lee

#81. A "breakdown" is when you've exhausted every option and have no choice but to accept the fact that you are powerless to create the outcome you want.

A "breakthrough" has the same definition.

Paul Colaianni

#82. the existing market economy has no "stable" or "neutral" setting: there is only growth or contraction.

Richard Heinberg

#83. The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.

Norbert Wiener

#84. I don't do epilogues. I hate epilogues. It's like nailing the coffin shut on the story, allowing for no further growth and leaving no room for the readers' imaginations.

Rick Riordan

#85. Relationships are valuable no matter who they are between.

Donna Goddard

#86. If I feel like I've reached this greatness in my career than there's no more room for growth. I don't think I'm ever going to get there. If I ever get complacent, it's time for me to bow out.

Taraji P. Henson

#87. Ambition is the great fire, it's the liberator of the
unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

Brendon Burchard

#88. Well, WorldCom's growth exploded in the Clinton years, there's no question, there's no disputing that.

Don Nickles

#89. All humans change. Development is our life. Transition, in labor, is the most painful time. Without change, there's no growth.

Mimi Kennedy

#90. A "no" from God really is a "no." It is not a "yes" cached in a "wait" or something like that. In fact...a "no" is quite a useful answer in the growth process if we receive it honestly.

Thomas R. Hauff

#91. Reinvention is no rushed religion.

Erica Alex

#92. There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth.

John Crowley

#93. To date, there has been no serious attempt in Western countries to use laws to control excessive population growth, although there exists ample authority under which population growth could be regulated.

John Holdren

#94. Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.

Nancy Pelosi

#95. She always had that about her, the sparkle in her eye, she was unshakeable and what made her so admirable was; her ability to shine bright when no one knew of her pain.

Nikki Rowe

#96. Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

Andy Stanley

#97. There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity.

Mollie Marti

#98. It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.

Austin Phelps

#99. Movement turns dead dogs into maggots and daisies, and flour butter sugar an egg and a tablespoon of milk into Abernethy biscuits, and spermatozoa and ovaries into fishy little plants growing babyward if we take no care to stop them.

Alasdair Gray

#100. Research and development needs permanent tax credits to build the technology that spurs our growth. But no government programs alone can get America's students to study more science and math; parents must push and help their children to meet this goal.

Ernest Istook