Quotes on Growth

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

All honest work is good work; it is capable of leading to self-development, provided the doer seeks to discover the inherent lessons and makes the most of the potentialities for such growth.

Educating our young girls is the foundation for Nigeria's growth and development.

Reforms aimed at increasing an economy's flexibility are always hard - and even more so at a time of weak growth - because they require eliminating protections for vested interests in the short term for the sake of greater long-term prosperity.

Everything about your life, about your body, grows! Your cells regenerate; your hair, your nails, everything grows for your entire life. And your soul needs exploration and growth. And the only way you'll get it is by forcing yourself to be uncomfortable. Forcing yourself to get outside, out of your head.

If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great.

A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

He will therefore have to use what knowledge he can achieve, not to shape the results as the craftsman shapes his handiwork, but rather to cultivate a growth by providing the appropriate environment, in the manner in which the gardener does this for his plants.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Presume not that I am the thing I was.

This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.