Quotes About Growth

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

One has to kill a few of one's natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

Reader, Now I send thee like a Bee to gather honey out of flowers and weeds; every garden is furnished with either, and so is ours. Read and meditate; thy profit shall be little in any book, unless thou read alone, and unless thou read all and record after.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

Many people have grown up attending church and hearing about God all their lives, but they do not have a personal, dynamic, growing relationship with God.

Grass that is here today and gone tomorrow does not require much time to mature. A giant oak tree that lasts for generations requires much more time to grow strong.

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. - from Fisherman's Luck

The first day of spring is one thing and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Happy those early days, when IShin'd in my angel-infancy!Before I understood this placeAppointed for my second race.

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

There are no birds in last year's nest

Into each life some rain must fall, some days be dark and dreary.

Age is opportunity no less, Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away, The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.