Quotes About Growth

In general, we want to take the easy way out, but what makes us happy is doing the thing that's a little bit difficult.

James Baldwin—the man who is, for my money, the greatest writer of the twentieth century—said: "Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

It might look discouraging , but at every relapse, you learn something new.

The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.

A man's errors are what make him amiable.

Age does not make us childish, as some say it only finds us true children still.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Everybody wants to be somebody nobody wants to grow.

Our friends show us what we can do our enemies teach us what we must do.

U bezit zoveel verstand, zoveel kennis, zoveel talenten waar u plezier aan kunt beleven! Verman u toch! Geef het toch op, die treurige verknochtheid aan iemand die u er alleen maar om kan beklagen.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

Experience is only half of experience

Man errs as long as he strives.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

Age does not make us childish, as they say.It only finds us true children still.

Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.