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Quotes About Growth

I'm not a very good painter, but I'm learning a lot.
~ Cleo Moore
There were three terrible ages of childhood -- zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
~ Cleveland Amory
There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
~ Cleveland Amory
One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one
~ Clifford Geertz
One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds of lives but end in the end having lived only one.
~ Clifford Geertz
at first we love the illusion of perfection. Later we come to love imperfections, because they signal vulnerability: and what we love, we yearn to protect.
~ Clifford Irving
IF YOU WOULD HAVE A MAN STAY AS HE IS, THEN TREAT HIM AS HE IS. IF YOU WOULD HAVE A MAN CHANGE, THEN TREAT HIM AS THE PERSON YOU WOULD WANT HIM TO BECOME.
~ Clifford Irving
Im a scientist, once I do something, I want to do something else.
~ Clifford Stoll
Still getting nowhere but it's the journey that matters not the hole at the end of the road.
~ Clifford Thurlow
In order to be yourself you have to deconstruct the puzzle of who you were to become who you were meant to be.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Don't let baby slip too quickly from your fingers. Hang on tight until she's ready to go. And then hang on a little longer.
~ Clifford Thurlow
How you live your life is a question of choices. You must do your best to make the right ones and make sure you fix it when you don't.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Learning is a continuous process. There is no growth without learning.
~ Unknown
People always want to move forward even when they are just sitting. They lean forward, look sideways, look backwards and even stand up to see what is ahead of them. Realizing they are actually facing a mirror in front of them.
~ Unknown
Not everybody is born with perfect qualities. And not everyone will grow up with extraordinary achievements. Time is generous to those who want to succeed and conquer. Just be natural, because you yourself is unique in your own right.
~ Unknown
People of the world will never know everything about you. What is more important is for you to take some time to know everything around you... and learn from them.
~ Unknown
People who have aged and died with lack of education do not make them less of a person. But for the new generation who are fresh and offered greater education, there is discernment that they can do better and achieve greater heights.
~ Unknown
So many people dream a lot, pray a lot and ask a lot for upliftment... but not for wisdom.
~ Unknown
The journey in life never stops as long as you look forward.
~ Unknown
The philosophy of life started on the day you gained wisdom, not on the day you were born.
~ Unknown
Anybody you once loved will always be a part of your life story.
~ Unknown
When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before.
~ Clifton Fadiman
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
~ Clifton Fadiman
As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us do when we try to judge ourselves. Now is the time to give reading a chance, for if you don't get the habit when you're young you may never get it. And if you don't get it, you may grow up to be just as dull as most adults are.
~ Clifton Fadiman