Quotes About Growth

From the end spring new beginnings.

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

To find a fault is easy to do better may be difficult.

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted.

man by nature is not a wild or unsocial creature, neither was he born so, but makes himself what he naturally is not, by vicious habit; and that again on the other side, he is civilized and grows gentle by a change of place, occupation, and manner of life, as beasts themselves that are wild by nature, become tame and tractable by housing and gentler usage...

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. "For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.

Small, therefore, can we think the progress we have made, as long as our admiration for those who have done noble things is barren, and does not of itself incite us to imitate them.

is to make them grow tall. For it contributes to height of stature when the vitality is not impeded and hindered by a mass of nourishment which forces it into thickness and width

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs kindling.

For if they do not receive the seed of good doctrines and share with their husbands in intellectual advancement, they, left to themselves, conceive many untoward ideas and low designs and emotions.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.

It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. Most people make mistakes. Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

From our deepest wounds come our greatest gifts.

A calling is not something you know, it's something you grow into, through trials and mistakes... Attack your fears, rather than shy away from them. Bring what you do in alignment with who you are...Failure's hard, but success at the wrong thing can lock you in forever.

When you act, you learn. That kind of wisdom beats the knowledge you read in a book, every time. To really seek answers, you need to act. To really develop your mind, run more experiments.

Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control," she explains. "They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child's control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.

People who had been through a lot reported that they changed their life, or got clarity, when they became conscious of what kind of person a certain job/industry/lifestyle was turning them into.

child deprived of the opportunity to discuss mistakes can't learn from them.

Around the world, every week, 3 million people move from rural areas into cities. That's a San Francisco every two days! That isn't a future statistic. That's a today statistic.