Quotes About Growth

Ms. Gleason kept us hopping on Tuesday. No, she didn't give us pogo sticks. But I learned so much that my head grew two hat sizes.

The primary purpose of education is not to teach you to earn your bread, but to make every mouthful sweeter.

Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most.

Suffering perfects the soul.

You can't go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. -James Ramsey Ullman

We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.

In reality, there are no enemies; we're all souls in growth, waking up

Embarrassment is the greatest teacher, but since its lessons are exactly those we have tried hardest to conceal from ourselves, it may teach us, also, to perfect our self-deception.

The past is the past. It's now up to us to sustain our own culture. We only lose what we fail to nurture.

The richest harvest comes from best-tilled soil.

One must be humble enough to recognize one's limitations, to know when further knowledge is needed.

Remember: what you are, we were. What we are, you will become.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin;A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

My soul is not a palace of the past...

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Even as the roots, shut in the darksome earth, Share in the tree top's joyance, and conceive Of sunshine and wide air and winged things, By sympathy of nature, so do I

You must go further than I did," Nedra said. "You know that." "Further?" "With your life. You must become free." She did not explain it; she could not. It was not a matter of living alone, though in her case this had been necessary. The freedom she meant was self-conquest. It was not a natural state. It was meant only for those who would risk everything for it, who were aware that without it life is only appetites until the teeth are gone.

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.