Quotes About Growth

Well then, try to keep an open mind be ready to learn about other things. Such as this, I suppose Such as trying not to have set ideas - other people's ideas - about love

Erano stati insieme, la bambina e l'orologio, la ragazza e l'orologio, la donna e l'orologio, attraverso malattie, incubi, fiabe e sogni a occhi aperti, attraverso la monotonia e la meraviglia della vita.

Invece adesso quella stanza, che l'aveva vista diventare adulta, l'avrebbe anche vista avvizzire e sbiadire.

He had planned so much for Julia, had watched her grow from a scarcely separable entity, seen her nature unfold, the very beginning of traits and characteristics make their quaint showing. It was hardly believable that they would never develop, that all that potential sweetness should dry up at its fount and turn to dust. Hardly believable and hardly bearable.

Ross?» «Sì, fiorellino?» «Ancora fiorellino» disse lei. «Stasera sono stata un bocciolo e un fiorellino. Spero che tra qualche anno non comincino a chiamarmi baccello.» Lui rise a bassa voce ma a lungo.

If your gonna screw up, do it while you're young. Older you get, the harder it is to bounce back.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Those who never change their minds, never change anything.

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

Continuous effort--not strength or intelligence--is the key to unlocking our potential.

Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one.

change is the best kind of rest.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong; and a boy deprived of a father's care often develops, if he escape the perils of youth, an independence and vigour of thought which may restore in after life the heavy loss of early days.

The grass soon grows over a battlefield but never over a scaffold.

Afortunadamente «los árboles no crecen hasta el cielo» y las ofensivas, por victoriosas que sean, pierden su fuerza inicial y se agotan con el terreno ganado.

In the autumn of 1942, at the peak of the struggle for Guadalcanal, only three American aircraft-carriers were afloat; a year later there were fifty; by the end of the war there were more than a hundred.

Success is never final.

the threat of adversity is a necessary factor in stimulating self-reliance.

The growth of the great antagonisms abroad was accompanied by the progressive aggravation of party strife at home.

as the acorn is nourished by the dead leaves of the oak, the hope strengthens that the rise and fall of men and their movements are only the changing foliage of the ever-growing tree of life

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong; and a boy deprived of a father's care often develops, if he escape the perils of youth, an independence and vigour of thought which may restore in after life the heavy loss of early days. It