Quotes About Growth

Klausykis sen? žmoni? patarim?. Kai užaugame, mums atrodo, kad žinome visk?. Manome, kad seniai kuoktel?j?, Metams b?gant, sukaupiame per daug išdidumo. Jis mus ir pražudo.

Sometimes, I love to fight with you… Because, we end up loving each other more.

What right does my present have to speak of my past? Has my present some advantage over my past? What grace might have enlightened me? except that of passing time, or of a good cause, encountered on my way?

Isolation and competition are inhospitable to learning.

Work is when you confront the problems you might otherwise be tempted to run away from

you should view each new travel frustration—sickness, fear, loneliness, boredom, conflict—as just another curious facet in the vagabonding adventure.

I was young those nights, but I was getting over it.

If those who 'gain all they can' and 'save all they can,' will likewise 'give all they can,' then the more they will grow in grace.

Errors once discovered are more than half amended

Rockefeller was sensitive about adults who behaved in a high-handed fashion toward him. Having assumed so much responsibility at home, he now thought of himself as a mature person.

Growing up as a miniature adult, burdened with duties, he developed an exaggerated sense of responsibility that would be evident throughout his life.

Taking for granted the growth of his empire, he hired talented people as found, not as needed.

Already so flush that he had invested in his first railroad stock, with cash to spare for the firm, Rockefeller was far more receptive.

In his later years, William traded in his Baptist upbringing for a more epicurean life.

These intimate conversations with myself, I'm sure, had a great influence on my life. I was afraid I could not stand my prosperity, and tried to teach myself not to get puffed up with any foolish notions.

soon to be eclipsed by New York.

but she was now better equipped to withstand his loss than she had been a few years earlier.

Gates himself invested in several of the companies he managed for Rockefeller, and in 1902 he cashed in a tidy $500,000 profit.

He thought Jack might fare better in the new environment.

As he ventured timidly beyond the self-contained world of his youth, he could not just enjoy spontaneous pleasure and had to justify it in terms of self-improvement.

No longer at the mercy of unpredictable economic forces, he thrived even in recessions.

John's moustache began to fall out, and all the hair on his body had followed by August.

He seemed to age a generation.

It took Rockefeller time to shed his obsessive concern for Standard Oil and allow himself to be lulled by the restful sea spirit.