Growth Excellence Quotes

Your job isn’t to judge.
Your job isn’t to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong.
Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.
Joel Osteen

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
Stephen Covey

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Robert Heinlein

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Napoleon Hill

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
Jim Rohn

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
Dalai Lama

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.
Henry Ford

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

Today, the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears. Today, wealth is contained in brainpower, not brutepower
Brian Tracy

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Know where to find the information and how to use it – That's the secret of success.
Albert Einstein

Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
Benjamin Franklin

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.
Mark Twain

Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I’ll give you a stock clerk.
J.C. Penney

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya Angelou

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
W. Clement Stone

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone

There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
Dalai Lama

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.
Henry Ford

Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.
Theodore T. Hunger

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Buddha

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
Napoleon Hill

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain

I never think of the future – it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.
David Frost 

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt

When you see a man of worth, think of how you may emulate him. When you see one who is unworthy, examine yourself.
Confucius

What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart 

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Jerome Cummings

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
Socrates

The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Whitney Young

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
Unknown

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
Michael Jordan

Don't judge those who try and fail, judge those who fail to try.
Unknown

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
Henry Ford

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.
Mark Twain

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
Walt Disney

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
John F. Kennedy

There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder
Ronald Reagan

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.
Thomas S. Szasz

Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be
Lao Tzu

There are many people, particularly in sports, who think that success and excellence are the same thing. They are not the same thing. Excellence is something that is lasting and dependable and largely within a person's control. In contrast, success is perishable and is often outside our control. If you strive for excellence, you will probably be successful eventually. People who put excellence in the first place have the patience to end up with success. An additional burden for the victim of the success mentality is that he is threatened by the success of others and he resents real excellence. In contrast, the person that is fascinated by quality is excited when he sees it in others.
Joe Paterno

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
Dalai Lama

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Michael J. Fox

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
Aristotle

Excellence is the result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.”
Ronnie Oldham

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.”
Steve Jobs

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Booker T. Washington

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
Martin Luther King Jr.

People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
Peter Drucker

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Thomas Jefferson

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Anonymous

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama

Commitment leads to action. Action brings your dream closer.
Marcia Wieder

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
Abraham Lincoln

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
Stephen Covey

After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.
Italian Proverb

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Wayne Dyer

Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
Stephen Covey

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
Buddha

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao Tzu

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson