Quotes About Growth

The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

When we are young, we spend much time and pains in filling our note-books with all definitions of Religion, Love, Poetry, Politics, Art, in the hope that, in the course of a few years, we shall have condensed into our encyclopaedia the net value of all the theories at which the world has yet arrived. But year after year our tables get no completeness, and at last we discover that our curve is a parabola, whose arcs will never meet.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

The years teach us much, which the days never knew.

Believe in yourself our strength grows out of our weakness

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. ... Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

Years teach much which the days never knew.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more. Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own?

Children are all foreigners.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

All great speakers were bad speakers at first.

He has seen but half the universe who never has been shown the house of Pain.

I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things

a man only knows what he's experienced