Quotes About Growth

In the woods is perpetual youth. In the woods we return to faith and reason.

I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

What we fear of doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self

Thought is the bud, language the blossom and action the fruit behind it.

I grieve that grief can teach me nothing.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

That which we persist on doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed , but our ability to do has increased.

Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

See yonder leafless tree against the sky, How they diffuse themselves into the air, And ever subdividing separate, Limbs into branches, branches into twigs, As if they loved the element, & hasted To dissipate their being into it.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The years teach much which the days never know.

Life is an experiment. The more experiments the better

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

If you would lift me you must be on higher ground. If you would liberate me you must be free. If you would correct my false view of facts, — hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought, and I cannot go back from the new conviction.

Skill to do comes of doing.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven.