Quotes About Growth

A good garden may have some weeds.

Weed 'em and reap.

A man's Nature runs either to herbs or weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other.

A vineyard is planted poetry.

Winter is a lean, scrappy fighter. Spring blossoms from the sweat of Winter's brow.

Not at home to callers Says the naked tree – Jacket due in April. Wishing you good day.

If winter wrote an autobiography, it would be mostly about the spring.

Winter is the gray, bare shell of spring.

Experience is the father, and memory the mother of wisdom.

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half-wise, sometimes half-stupid.

Troubles are a lot like people — they grow bigger if you nurse them.

An author plants the alphabet — and harvests flowers, nourishment, and weeds.

The pen is a tree whose fruit is expression.

Justices continue to think and can change. I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.

This, then, is the state of the Union: Free and restless, growing and full of hope. So it was in the beginning. So it shall always be, while God is willing, and we are strong enough to keep the faith.

He who is born a fool is never cured.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself!...

I need hardly remind you... that graduation is not the end of your study. It is, as you know, only the beginning of it. You have learned how to study, now it is most important that you continue in this most valuable work...

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle.

A candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise or stir at all, But softly gives itself away, While, quite unselfish, it grows small...

Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.