Quotes About Growth

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Doubt grows with knowledge.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Well, that's Philosophy I've read, And Law and Medicine, and I fear Theology, too, from A to Z; Hard studies all, that have cost me dear. And so I sit, poor silly man No wiser now than when I began.

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.

What you feed in yourself that grows.

I call him happy who still hopes to rise To the surface in this sea of error. The very things we don't know, we could use And what we do know we have no use for.

Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us mastery over ourselves is destructive.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

All our most honest toil succeeds only in unconscious moments. For how would the rose blossom if it were aware of the splendor of the sun!

All force strives forward to work far and wide To live and grow and ever to expand; Yet we are checked and thwarted on each side By the world's flux and swept along like sand: In this internal storm and outward tide We hear a promise, hard to understand: From the compulsion that all creatures binds, Who overcomes himself, his freedom finds.

He serves me somewhat darkly, now, I grant, Yet will he soon attain the light of reason.

Here the old man said with a smile: 'Love does not rule, but it trains, and that is more.

Age doesn't make us childish, as they say, It finds that we're still children.

A?açlar?n sarar?p dökülen yapraklar? gibi, benim de ya?ant?m sarar?p dökülüyor.

Wer nicht von dreitausend Jahren sich weiß Rechenschaft zu geben, bleib im Dunkeln unerfahren, mag von Tag zu Tage leben.

Life is all about moments of impact and how they change our lives forever.

I suppose it's amazing how quick life goes by when you have children.

It's only life. We all get through it.

The tree of life for me is a symbol of abundance and eternal life.

Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.