Quotes About Growth

All my hurts my garden spade can heal

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

Cities force growth, and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.

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

Never read any book that is not a year old.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better. What if they are a little course, and you may get your coat soiled or torn What if you do fail, and get fairly rolled in the dirt once or twice. Up again, you shall never be so afraid of a tumble.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

People wish to be settled. It is only as far as they are unsettled that there is any hope for them.

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

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Maturity is a result of learning from success and from mistakes—in other words, learning from experience.

Growth will be slower. The vast consumer market that is America may no longer be the principal global economic driver it has been, and countries intent on creating jobs for their people will be much slower to import our goods.