Quotes About Growth

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. (Thanks Joe P. for the quote)

Why is it a good thing to understand this movie so well? Because it will help you live a good life. Absorbing the deep meaning of the Nicomachean Ethics will also help you live a good life, but Groundhog Day will do it with a lot less effort. 35.

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

What does not change / is the will to change.

Babies are always more trouble than you thought — and more wonderful.

Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.

What is your work in this world?" "I don't know what it is yet. I'm back in school now." "It's getting pretty late in the day for you to have so few interests and convictions. How old are you, Mr. Midge?

There are no foolish questions and no man becomes a fool until he has stopped asking questions.

We are to learn to understand ourselves now as those who have been placed on the way and no longer can do anything other than walk in it." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

It is what we do with blessings or difficulties that will determine the kind of person we are becoming.

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned

Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Life is like a 10-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.

When one has success, the answer is not to undo that success. It is to continue what has been done.

Everyone's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.

Education isn't like a video, with a beginning and a middle and an end. It has a beginning, then it keeps going until you're dead. If it stops you are dead, even if you don't know it.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.