Quotes About Growth

I think that no two men age at the same rate, or learn equal sums from experience. Some

Son, it isn't how many books you read, it's what you get from those you do read.

When you spend your whole life living in a hole," he said, "the only way you can go is up.

Well, not exactly. I got a C-minus on the paper I wrote about my idea for the ergie. So then

When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up.

If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole

If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.

In a few years, Camp Greenlake will be a girl scout camp.

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally…

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.

I think we are all hopelessly flawed.

Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved.

We'll all grow up someday, Meg, we might as well know what we want. ~Amy March~

Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better.

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so these hard days need not be wasted. I know they will remember all I said to them, that they will be loving children to you, will do their duty faithfully, fight their bosom enemies bravely, and conquer themselves so beautifully that when I come back to them I may be fonder and prouder than ever of my little women.

I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!