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“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

“If environmental protection efforts continue to lag behind economic growth, pollution will become even more rampant.”

Ifs Growth Effort Behinds Economic Environmental Protection Pollution Economic Growth Environmental Protection Lag

Author:Zhou Shengxian

“Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals.”

Way Mean Growth Behinds Creative Democracy Essentials Ambition Ideals Democratic Notion Impulse Initiative Vitality Standardization Democratic Ideals

Author:Ida Tarbell

“To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.”

Needs Process Growth Behinds Company Focus Cost Concepts Strategy Simplicity Execution Efficiency Alignment Refining Great Company Assessing

Author:Bill Vaughan

“I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.”

Made Spiritual Joy Left Growth Behinds Poet Mountain Hunger Tiny Spiritual Growth Wounded Honored Bugs Left Behind Healed

Author:Rumi

“One of the greatest sources of problems in our society arises from people having loads of wrong theories in their heads - often theories that are critical of others - that they won't test by speaking to the relevant people about them. Instead, they talk behind people's backs, which leads to pervasive misinformation.”

People Life Problem Growth Behinds Theory Source Tests Personal Growth Investing Critical Arise Our Society Relevant Load Misinformation

Author:Ray Dalio

“Never say anything about a person you wouldn't say to them directly, and don't try people without accusing them to their face. Badmouthing people behind their backs shows a serious lack of integrity and is counterproductive. It doesn't yield any beneficial change, and it subverts both the people you are badmouthing and the environment as a whole.”

People Life Trying Persons Whole Shows Faces Growth Behinds Environment Serious Integrity Personal Growth Investing Yield Say Anything Beneficial Accusing Counterproductive Lack Of Integrity

Author:Ray Dalio

“It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age.... sympathy as a fine art is backward in the growth of progress.”

Art Age Growth Behinds Progress Fine Art Is Sympathy Disabled Comprehension Fine Arts Physically Disabled

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“My father was a mailman. His father was a coal miner. My mother's mother could barely speak English. And their son today stands on this podium in the great state of Ohio not only as the governor, but a candidate for president of the United States.I do believe in miracles.I've had a lot of elections. But my elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement.A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.”

“I chose to devote the lion's share of my time to my personal growth and to my family. I reconnected with the part of me that I had left behind.”

Left Growth Behinds Share My Family Personal Growth My Time Lions Left Behind

Author:RuPaul

“Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.”

May Feelings Growth Loss Behinds Transition Somewhere Else

Book:You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

Source: You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

“When we hunt or fish, we deliberately kill a defenseless being who wishes us no harm. This is a direct violation of the First Precept. It is absolutely forbidden to Buddhists. As to eating meat, we know that the only way we can obtain it is for an animal to be killed. Therefore, when we eat meat, it is our intent that an innocent animal should die to satisfy our addiction to flesh. And that underlying intention, no matter how well hidden behind a smokescreen of rationalizations will block the growth of compassion and create negative karma.”

“There still aren't enough[ roles for women of color]. And I'd say that's the case, not only for African-American women, but for all women in the Hollywood game. It's just slim pickings, and a very challenging time for us. I think that's why more of us need to work our way behind the camera in order to create roles that really illuminate who women are. We still have room for growth in that area, without a doubt.”

“London had always been different. There is the old saying that Britain is ten years behind America, and the country as a whole is ten years behind London. If you have a Mayor of London working for jobs and growth and strong businesses, that is going to create opportunities for businesses and people in Burnley or Hull and places all over the UK.”

People Ifs Years Different Country Whole Jobs America Opportunity Strong Growth Behinds Ten London Britain Mayors Old Saying Hull

Author:Sadiq Khan