Quotes About Growth

Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him.

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.

Earth laughs in flowers.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

We change, whether we like it or not

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

Many time the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

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

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

Plants are the young of the world. Vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upward towards consciousness; the trees are imperfect man, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.

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

There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man, but in every particle. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved.

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples.

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

That man is idle who can do something better.

Earth laughs in flower