Quotes & Sayings About Personal And Professional Growth

Wander around wonder for awhile and awaken wisdom within. — Soul Dancer

Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves. — Vishwas Chavan

It's really important to find a humble approach to your own creative work, your own business work. To recognize that you can't do everything yourself. — Adrian Grenier

Professional development is a collective resource, not a personal prerogative. Peer engagement forges powerful links between teacher learning and student growth. — Laura Lipton

Enjoy your faults, that's what separates you from the rest of the world. — Marilyn Manson

Potential: a bridge between ask and grasp. — Soul Dancer

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources. — James Surowiecki

Personal growth and professional development require mostly being treated like an adult, which is pretty much the opposite of what happens in most workplaces. People need to be able to make decisions. To do that effectively, they need information and training in how to use it. — Jeffrey Pfeffer

Balance: a dance with how and when. — Soul Dancer

Cournoyer has it on that wing. Here's a shot - Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here's another shot! Right in front - THEY SCORE!!! Henderson has scored for Canada! — Foster Hewitt

Kindness: a waltz with forgiveness and hope. — Soul Dancer

Compassion: a robust dance between grace and wisdom. — Soul Dancer

The problem with your company is not the economy, it is not the lack of opportunity, it is not your team. The problem is you. That is the bad news. The good news is, if you're the problem, you're also the solution. You're the one person you can change the easiest. You can decide to grow. Grow your abilities, your character, your education, and your capacity. You can decide who you want to be and get about the business of becoming that person. — Dave Ramsey

A Great Teacher is like a fountain; she draws from the still, deep waters of personal growth and professional knowledge to serve others from her abundant overflow. — Wynn Godbold

Every battle you have to fight, is an opportunity for the glory of God to be revealed.The greater the obstacles, the greater the victory. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising. — Kit Williams

Live that way long enough, and you will literally find yourself addicted to the acceptance of people. You will constantly need verbal affirmation. You will depend on always receiving a steady stream of invitations to events you don't even want to attend. You will feel as though you need a significant other in your life at all times. I'm not exaggerating - this need for external acceptance will literally become an addiction.

And that turns every one of your relationships - personal, professional, and romantic - into a codependent one. You are not in the relationship with a full heart able to give love away. You are in the relationship because you NEED it. You don't know how you'd survive, much less thrive, without it. You are using every person to fill a void in your heart that you simply refuse to fill yourself. This is a mess. — Stephen Lovegrove

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend. — Charles Barkley

Perspective seasons meaning with sprinkles of time. — Soul Dancer

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure — Hippocrates

I have experienced a tremendous amount of personal and professional growth, and I feel incredibly lucky that I'm able to make a career out of doing the things that I love. — Jose Garces

Promises, like gardens need weeding from time to time to produce healthy results. — Soul Dancer

Gossip: a weed watered by wayward words. — Soul Dancer

He stabbed a sharp-nailed digit in the direction of the Shattered Straits, — Christie Golden

As I digest what words I speak, I consume more wisely. — Soul Dancer

If you are poor, live wisely. If you have riches, live wisely. It is not your station in life but your heart that brings blessings. — Gautama Buddha

Life: composted lessons for our hearts to blossom into our souls. — Soul Dancer

It's time we recognize that, as the workplace is currently structured, a lot of women don't want to get to the top and stay there because they don't want to pay the price - in terms of their health, their well-being, and their happiness. — Arianna Huffington

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I feel different, better, about my personal life as well as my professional life. So much confidence comes simply because I have reached this very good age. Women my age today are forging new ground. Society stops defining us by our reproductive capacity, sexual attractiveness, or other traditional measures, so we become liberated from stereotype. We are freed to grow into our full selves.

I couldn't have allowed myself to feel so positive in the past. When I was at the height of my film career, I didn't have the kind of respect I now have from the theatrical community. I hadn't yet proved that I have the chops for the stage. But now I have a stature I've never before enjoyed.

Virginia Woolf herself observed that when her Aunt Mary left her enough money to live on, her financial independence meant she "need not hate" or "flatter any man." She said this was of even more value to her freedom and autonomy than the right to vote. — Kathleen Turner

I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth? — Carl R. Rogers

Mind chatter: a clatter of left-brain rains of doubt, worry, guilt, shame in a thunderstorm of fear. Forgive the chatter, clear your mind. — Soul Dancer

To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Now is the time to reinvent yourself and develop a new plan of action. Now is the time to create new actions and practices that are focused on growth and development in your personal and professional life. Now is the time to unleash your leadership potential and ignite your passion to lead. — Thomas Narofsky

Fear melts like ice when we allow love's divine light to shine upon our ignorance. — Soul Dancer

Before I make a mistake, I don't make that mistake. — Johan Cruyff