Quotes About Growth

Except when he has regressive tendencies, the child's nature is to aim directly and energetically at functional independence.

A garden is one of the few expressions of man's nature that is altogether benign.

It's human nature to want to keep going, but you have to fight against the "I'm just gonna keep doing it" when you know the possibility of not looking great on the way out.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

Love, in its own nature, demands the perfecting of the beloved.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

One cannot in the nature of things expect a little tree that has been turned into a club to put forth leaves.

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Nature never gives everything at once.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature.

Life is known only by those who have found a way to be comfortable with change and the unknown. Given the nature of life, there may be no security, but only adventure.

Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

By nature I am curious about life, and this extends to my business.

Man is an animal that cannot long be left in safety without occupation; the growth of his fallow nature is apt to run into weeds.

If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is - and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.

Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.

Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.

Growing nations should remember that, in nature, no tree, though placed in the best conditions of light, soil, and plot, can continue to grow and spread indefinitely.