Quotes About Growth

The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer.

Nevertheless, a maxim does not necessarily become a proverb. Many grubs never grow to butterflies; and a maxim is only a proverb in its caterpillar stage—a candidate for a wider sphere and longer flight than most are destined to attain.

But a weed is simply a plant that wants to grow where people want something else. In blaming nature, people mistake the culprit. Weeds are people's idea, not nature's.

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

Maybe part of loving is learning to let go.

Convert difficulties into opportunities, for difficulties are divine surgeries to make you better.

Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.

Now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds, The harvest can be either flowers or weeds.

The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed.

The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.

Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet.

May thy ball lie in green pastures... and not in still waters.

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.

Minds are like parachutes — they only function when open.

Do not nurse a kid who wears braces.

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

The most amazing things that can happen to a human being will happen to you, if you just lower your expectations.

Yesterday brought the beginning, tomorrow brings the end, and somewhere in the middle we became the best of friends.

I have played the fool.

Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own.

Get rid of the old leaven of sin so that you may be a new batch of dough — as you really are.

This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,I press toward the mark.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.