Quotes About Growth

Because you are not in the right business or the right environment now, do not think that you must postpone action until you get into the right business or environment.

It is wonderful Becoming.

Man was formed for growth, and all things external were designed to promote his growth.

On the other hand, to fix your attention on the best is to surround yourself with the best, and to become the best.

You naturally want to become all that you are capable of becoming; this desire to realize innate possibilities is inherent in human nature.

That which makes you want more money is the same as that which makes the plant grow; it is Life, seeking fuller expression.

You must so impress others that they will feel that in associating with you they will get increase for themselves.

I don't think we can name a single poor nation where population control programs have worked. I don't think we can name a single affluent country that has not reduced population growth, often below ZPG.

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime's worth of lessons.

I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow

You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.

It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing.

Poetry ought to be a by-product of living, and you can't have a by-product unless you've got a product first .

Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

What if I can't turn my head? I can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary notwithstanding, that is the only direction we can learn from.

I didn't know myself well, and still don't. But I did know, and know now, the few people I loved and trusted. My feeling for them is one part of me I have never quarreled with, even though my relations with them have more than once been abrasive.

We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals.

Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match,

Each child marked a decline in the security of their life.

Whatever we thought about art and its relation to life, we knew that the Faulkner motto we had adopted in harder times no longer served. "They kilt us but they ain't whupped us yit" was no watchword for this world so full of interest, instruction, suggestiveness, possibility,

He cited me her own remark that she wrote from the protected point of view, the woman's point of view, as evidence that she went through her life from inexperience to inexperience.