Quotes About Growth

The flesh of my flesh. And the bone of my bone. Must return to mother earth to replenish the soil of the ground. As manure is to the plants."

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Be thankful for problems. If they were less difficult, someone with less ability might have your job.

For this is the journey that men make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much what else they find.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great man.

What has happened is what has happened. The past is gone. I was not the same person then. I was much weaker. I lived and breathed and hid in fear. That time is gone. I fear nothing. I have faced my fears and learned from them. The gods gave me that.

If everything in the past has value, then there's no reason for regret, ever.

Working hard will allow you to be useful to successful people. Working smart will allow you to enter their ranks.

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children.

I feel as I were disintegrating and "growing up", whatever that means, simultaneously.

Well, now, some people learn a little quicker than others. It's nice to learn fast but it's nice to take your time too.

Now I am more nearly a grown member of the human race..she thought she had never before had a chance to realize the strength human beings have, to endure;she loved and revered all those who had ever suffered, even those who had failed to endure

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people.

he still thought I was accusing him or calling him to account. He said, "People *do* grow. You may not think much of *me*, but my children will be great!" I said , "They will be black and blind or passing for white and self-blinded. Those are the only choices.

Every burden is a blessing.

When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.

Without temptation the soul cannot grow.

A man's sympathy extends just so far as his wisdom reaches, and no further; and a man only grows wiser as he grows tenderer and more compassionate. To narrow one's sympathy is to narrow one's heart, and so to darken and embitter one's life.

The birds are molting. If only man could molt also — his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions.

A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.