Quotes About Growth

Do little things now, says a Persian proverb; so shall big things come to thee by and by asking to be done. God will take care of the great things if we do not neglect the little ones.

You know how writers are... they create themselves as they create their work. Or perhaps they create their work in order to create themselves.

the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

In order to learn, one must change one's mind.

I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

It is in the turmoil of chaos that we discover what, if anything, we are.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

The only teacher that's worth anything to you is your enemy.

I want to be the kind of boy you are, thought Bean. But I don't want to go through what you've been through to get there.

I came because I've spent my whole life in the company of the brother that I hated. Now I want a chance to know the brother that I love, before it's too late, before we're not children anymore.

For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew. He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I understand your mother has six. Right. And you're the oldest. Yes. That's too bad. Parents always make their worst mistakes with the oldest children. That's when parents know the least and care the most, so they're more likely to be wrong and also more likely to insist that they're right.

I once heard a tale of a man who split himself in two. The one part never changed at all; the other grew and grew. The changeless part was always true, The growing part was always new, And I wondered, when the tale was through, Which part was me, and which was you.

I'm hurting you to make you a better soldier in every way. To sharpen your wit. To intensify your effort. To keep you off balance, never sure what's going to happen next, so you always have to be ready for anything, ready to improvise, determined to win no matter what. I'm also making you miserable.

You don't want to give God the credit because you don't think he exists. But if you're going to blame him for all the crap, kid, you got to give him credit for what grows from that fertilized soil.

Come into our home, daughters of Earth; dwell in our tunnels, harvest our fields; what we cannot do, you are now our hands to do for us. Blossom, trees; ripen, fields; be warm for them, suns; be fertile for them, planets: they are our adopted daughters, and they have come home.

We don't punish the ones who fail. They just-don't go on

Characters, as most writers understand, are truly developed through their relationships with others.

Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.

Telling the story of who she was, and then realizing that she was no longer the same person. That she had made a mistake, and the mistake had changed her, and now she would not make the mistake again because she had become someone else, someone less afraid, someone more compassionate.

No single] explanation will ever contain the final answer for all time, for all hearers. There is always, ALWAYS more to learn.

The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.