Quotes About Growth

If you never change your mind, why have one?

The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong than to be always right by having no ideas at all.

To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition of a new way of looking at things.

The trouble was that the adventure with Sir Launcelot had seemed to point a moral. And if you have ever had a moral pointed at you, you will know that it is not a completely pleasant feeling. You are grateful for being improved, and you hope you will remember and do better next time, but you do not want to think about it very much just now.

Babies are our business, our only business.

You should produce the body.

You've come a long way baby.

I learned much from my teachers, more from my books, and most from my mistakes.

I was a seven-stone weakling.

Merrill Lynch is bullish on America.

When you're climbing the ladder, don't forget the rungs.

Progress is our most important product.

Be all that you can be.

There are only two lasting bequests that we can hope to give our children — roots and wings.

First you feel like dying. Then you feel reborn.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

If thou seest a man of understanding, get thee betimes unto him, and let thy foot wear the steps of his door.

Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss.

If we don't face and overcome unsettling events in life, we are ruled by them.

If I've learned anything from video games, it's what when you meet enemies it means you're going in the right direction.

Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.

If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.

Climb a tree — it gets you closer to heaven.