Quotes About Growth

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

You are what you read.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

I'm too old to know everything

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

It was always once springtime in my heart.

I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.

Above his desk he tacked a line he remembered from the Persian poet, Rumi: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

That was the sort of everyday love I had to learn to contend with: if you grow up with it, it's hard to think you'll ever match it. I used to think it was difficult for children of folks who really loved each other, hard to get out from under that skin because sometimes it's just so comfortable you don't want to have to develop your own.

The years tumbled on. They had kids: one two three four. Beauties. Whippersnappers. A little wild, all of them.

His face had softened: as if just being a moment with her had relaxed him, allowed him to be someone different. I guess this is what marriage is, or was, or could be. You drop the mask. You allow the fatigue in. You lean across and kiss the years because they're the things that matter.

The perfection is not so much in the performance as in the journey towards it. This is the joy. You must burn!

Aprender sin pensar es inútil. Pensar sin aprender peligroso

If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.