Quotes About Growth

I watch the growth of spirit in the children who come to my class.

As for the matter of what we may expect from one another, that is indeed something we are eager to learn - all of us, all our lives, but I wonder, do we ever learn, do we ever really find out?

Everything is changed for you. But it is still the same, too. The loneliness you feel has come to you because you are no longer a child. But the world has always been full of that loneliness.

I thought a fellow would never cry when he got to be grown up, but it seems as if that's when a fellow starts, because that's when a fellow starts finding out about things.

I thought a fellow would never cry when he got to be a grown up, but it seems as if that's when a fellow starts, because that's when a fellow starts finding out things.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know…

Presume not that I am the thing I was; For God doth know, so shall the world perceive, That I have turn'd away my former self; So will I those that kept me company.

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.

So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, But yet an union in partition, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem.

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything. (Sonnet XCVIII)

Mark it, nuncle. Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest, Ride more than thou goest, Learn more than thou trowest, Set less than thou throwest, Leave thy drink and thy whore And keep in-a-door, And thou shalt have more Than two tens to a score.

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.' Benedick - The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vildly painted; and in such great letters as they writes, 'Here is good horse for hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, To say as I said then! But, come, away; Get me ink and paper: He shall have every day a several greeting, Or I'll unpeople Egypt.

Be as thou wast wont to be. See as thou wast wont to see.

Possiamo chiudere con il passato, ma il passato non chiude con noi.

Do not spread the compost on the weeds.

Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.

At first I did adore a twinkling star But now I worship a celestial sun

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.