Quotes About Growth

Today is not yesterday how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

If anyone accuses me of contradicting myself I reply: Because I have been wrong once or oftener I do not aspire to be always wrong.

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.

The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

My opinion is a view I hold until... well until I find something that changes it.

He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.

To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.

We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.

I expect some new phases of life this summer and shall try to get the honey from each moment.

For years I wanted to be older and now I am.

Lifting as they climb onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long.

Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Never think any oldish thoughts. It's oldish thoughts that make a person old.

You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.

One of the most devastating experiences in human life is disillusionment.

One is not born a genius one becomes a genius.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are and if it is good it is better than your youth.

Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.