Quotes About Growth

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Sow a thought and you reap an action; sow an act and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

The years teach much the days never know.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.

What I need is someone who will make me do what I can.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little coarse and you may get your coat soiled or torn? What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice? Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences.

Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Books are for nothing but to inspire

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a child. In the woods, is perpetual youth.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote those books.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.