Quotes About Growth

Wisdom to learn is e'en for old men good.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

Old men are always young enough to learn.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

But time growing old teaches all things.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

There is adantage in the wisdom won from pain

Time as he grows old teaches many lessons.

Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain

There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

To learn is to be young, however old.

Time, as it grows old, teaches all things.

Suffering brings experience.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Little by little does the trick.

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors

Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight

Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Cape Coast, Ghana.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.

How absurd to call youth the time of happiness - youth, the time of greatest vulnerability! - Hercule Poirot in Death on the Nile

One must make one's own mistakes

You're very young...you haven't got to that yet. But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you've done with it all - that you haven't got to carry the burden any longer. You'll feel that too someday...