Best growth & action Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing our wounds, forgiveness, and service. The soul grows well when giving and receiving love. I nourish my soul daily by loving others and being vulnerable to their love. Love is, after all, a verb, an action word, not a noun.”

Way Giving Wells Soul Action Grows Goal Growth Love Is Healing Love You Wounds My Soul Vulnerable Receiving Verbs Nouns Giving And Receiving Loving Others Nature Love Receiving Love

Author:Joan Z. Borysenko

“We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.”

People Action Individual Growth Community Development Respect Pity Stressed Out

Author:Y. C. James Yen

“In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.”

Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

“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.”

Should Government Action Growth Justice Court Department Officers Representatives Suspicion Partisans Slow Growth

Book:1903-1905

Source: 1903-1905

“Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.”

Action Order Growth Contemplation Permit Right Action Stranger In A Strange Land

Book:Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

“Courage is finding the inner strength and bravery required when confronting danger, difficulty, or opposition. Courage is the energy current behind all great actions and the spark that ignites the initial baby steps of growth. It resides deep within each of us, ready to be accessed in those moments when you need to forge ahead or break through seemingly insurmountable barriers. It is the intangible force that propels you forward on your journey.”

Source: If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules: Ten Rules for Being Human as Introduced in Chicken Soup for the Soul

“As a businessman, I know President Obama understands what it takes to spark economic growth, because I have seen him in action.”

Knows Action Growth President Economic Sparks President Obama Businessman Economic Growth

Author:Austin Ligon

“Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development - begun now and ending never. And a life made true cannot confine itself - it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.”

Made Action Life Is Growth Interest Development Uplifting Reach Out Within Reach

Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.”

Men Long Running Action Left Growth Animal Safety Occupation Weed

Book:Six Months in Italy

Source: Six Months in Italy

“Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no progress; and without conflict, no victory. The man who lies down a fool at night, hoping that he will waken wise in the morning, will rise up in the morning as he laid down in the evening.”

Men Action Lying Night Culture Growth Morning Wise Progress He Man Fool Victory Conflict Labor Evening Polish Acquisition Exertion Friction

Author:Frederick Douglass

“A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct actions of external conditions, and so forth.”

Use Action Law Causes Growth Conditions Effects Fields Direct Inquiry Variation Correlation Direct Action

Book:The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species

Source: The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species

“Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.”

Men Wells Doe Action Nations Growth Race Liberty Conditions He Man Well Being Thoughts And Actions

Book:Complete Works

Source: Complete Works

“No growth without resistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint.”

Action Desire Growth Reactions Resistance Restraint

Author:Li Mu

“For boys, the family was the place from which one sprang and to which one returned for comfort and support, but the field of action was the larger world of wilderness, adventure, industry, labor, and politics. For girls, the family was to be the world, their field of action the domestic circle. He was to express himself in his work and, through it and social action, was to help transform his environment; her individual growth and choices were restricted to lead her to express herself through love, wifehood, and motherhood--through the support and nurture of others, who would act for her.”

World Helping Action Choices Girl Individual Social Growth Boys Support Environment Fields Adventure Industry Comfort Labor Motherhood Circles Wilderness Nurture Social Action

Author:Gerda Lerner

“... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development--begun now and ending never.”

Ifs Life Made Action Life Is Religion Growth Deals Teaching Development Ought Worship Mere Instinct Linked Gratification Credo

Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.”

Source: Pieces of Eight Pa

“You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.”

“For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.”

“The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.”

Action Growth Type Needed Balance Obstacles Reform Remove Patents

Author:Viet D. Dinh

“The real action is interior - all the growth that cannot be seen externally and to which we tend to have little access until we have experienced it ourselves.”

Littles Real Action Growth Access Interiors

Author:Wendy Lustbader

“Forgiveness in no way justifies the actions that caused your wounding, nor does it mean that you have to seek out those who harmed you. It is simply a movement to release and ease your heart of the pain and hatred that binds it. It is the harvested fruit of a season of darkness, followed by a season of growth and of very hard work.”

Way Heart Mean Doe Hard Action Pain Growth Darkness Movement Hard Work Hatred Seasons Fruit Release Ease Justify

Author:Dawna Markova

“We shall take whatever action is necessary to contain the growth of the money supply. The government, unlike so many of its predecessors, will face up to economic realities.”

Reality Government Action Faces Growth Money Economic Predecessors

Book:As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth.”

Action Growth Community Creative Issues Type Direct Crisis Violent Tension Not Afraid Ignored Constructive Non Violent Direct Action Creative Tension

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“But waiting for 'eventually' to prove the alarmists wrong is not the wisest course of action. Unfullfillable ambitions to stifle growth will devastate a world trying to deal with the complexities of economics, stability, and the environment. Quality of life depends on access to energy. Noble intentions about 'C02-free' sources of energy are not sufficient, if their agenda of eliminating coal as a source, and turning their back on nuclear, are allowed to be part of our near-term policies.”

“How can I look at it and say, there it is - it's real. This is what is happening. It might even be a catalyst for more personal growth for me. It might be a blessing in disguise. It might not be. What's my best course of action? How can I be skillful?”

Looks Real Might Action Courses Growth Blessing Happenings Personal Growth Disguise Catalyst Skillful Blessings In Disguise

Author:Brad Willis

“Well, well-run companies always have a focus on growth and the two lines, which includes profit. The key thing during, I think, tough times, is to make sure that you've covered the basis for when something, you know, essentially things taking longer, bad luck, adversity, other kinds of circumstances may occur. Make sure that you can monitor to win, it's potentially, you know, something is going to go wrong, monitor early enough, and then take appropriate action to essentially counteract that or shift your strategy or plan, even if in fact something is not working out as well as it is.”

“I often think there are three primary responses to suffering - rage, intoxication, or growth. We either want revenge for our pain, or we numb ourselves with the endless array of intoxicants available to us, from drugs to overwork, or we grow in empathy. Emptiness can transform into spaciousness; lack can become an agent of social action. But I think many of us struggle to remain on that third path without backsliding into the other two. I do.”

“The first thing I'd say is stop paying such attention to Trump's tweets. They're a total distraction. I think we should instead be carefully watching the actions of groups like Freedom Partners, Chamber of Commerce, the Koch's big donor operation. The Club for Growth is another part of this, and Americans for Prosperity on the ground.”

Thinking Action Growth Attention Prosperity Distraction Tweet

Author:Nancy MacLean

“Latin America is now exploring new and often promising paths in rejecting the doctrinal notions of "globalization," and also in the remarkable growth of popular movements and authentic participation in the political systems. How successful this will be is more a matter for action than for speculation.”

Action Political Growth Path Successful Remarkable Latin Exploring Participation Globalization Speculation Latin America

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”

Knows Mean I Can Ends Motivational Action Growth Know How Excellence Personal Growth Do The Best Swearing Doing Your Best Niece Be Your Best Encouraging Basketball Striving To Be The Best Your The Best

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations

“Example is leadership.”

Action Growth Leadership Learning Example

Author:Albert Schweitzer

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