“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
“All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.”
Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945) Novelist, short story writer
“Life is all about mistakes. It is constant change and growth”
Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1
“Characteristic of our times are the concepts of complexity, growth and change.”
Harold Chestnut (1917–2001) American engineer
Source: Systems Engineering Tools, (1965), p. 1
Geoffrey West (1940) British physicist
2010s <br class="br">Source: Jonah Lehredec. " A Physicist Solves the City http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/magazine/19Urban_West-t.html?pagewanted=5&_r=1," in www.nytimes.com. Dec 17, 2010.
“Absolutely, in fact, climate change is directly related to the growth of terrorism.”
Bernie Sanders (1941) American politician, senator for Vermont
Democratic debate on CBS News, when Moderator John Dickerson asked if Sanders believed climate change was the greatest threat to national security http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/bernie-sanders-climate-change-greatest-security-threat-and-directly (14 November 2015) <br class="br">2010s, 2015
“Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906–2001) American aviator and author
The Wave of the Future (1940)
Aleister Crowley (1875–1947) poet, mountaineer, occultist
Source: The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
“The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary.”
Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist
Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 1 : The Courage to Create, p. 21
Context: The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.