Quotes About Growth

And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.

relentlessly strive to come up with new and better products and produce them more efficiently than the alternatives.

I should regret very much to have you miss the glorious feeling of accomplishment and I know you are not going to let me down. Remember that often adversity is a blessing in disguise and is certainly the greatest character builder.

that this was a lesson my father impressed on me at an early age: "Often adversity is a blessing in disguise and is certainly the greatest character builder." Fred Koch's

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

The growth of Sentiment is the increase of suffering; man is never entirely miserable until he finds out how wronged he is and fancies that he sees far ahead a possible freedom.

Understand that at times, you will feel uncomfortable. View that discomfort as progress; it's part of how you overcome your fears.

Evolution: that last step was a doozy!

The next evolutionary step for humankind is to move from human to kind.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Let your working ideas go for a picnic — sometimes the fresh air and ant bites are just what they need. Many great ideas were bitten a little at the beginning.

God save me from him who studies but one book.

We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?

As long as you're green, you're growing; as soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Adults are obsolete children...

We mature in knowledge and wisdom but never leave the playground of our hearts.

But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

What is a butterfly? At best He's but a caterpiller drest.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

Life is a school where you learn how to remember what your soul already knows.

If you don't get enough time-outs as a child, you get them as a grownup.

Any increase in knowledge anywhere helps pave the way for an increase in knowledge everywhere.

Learn a new language and get a new soul.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.