Quotes About Growth

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can. We patch and tinker more than we renew. The novelty soaks in; it stains the ancient mass; but it is also tinged by what absorbs it.

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own.

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude.

If you can change your mind, you can change your life.

To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear, and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

We are only possible as what happened to us yesterday. We all change as well move

Garden as though you will live forever.

It made me think that no matter how big we grew or how old, there was always a child in us somewhere.

He knew there was no magic to wipe clean the slate of memory. You just learned how to move on.

I was little more than a child still wrapped in a soothing blanket of illusion

sometimes the only way a man learns the true spirit of a rock is to stub his toe on it.