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Quotes About Growth

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.
~ John Vanbrugh
Don't expect your friend to be a perfect person. Help your friend to become a perfect person. That is true friendship
~ Mother Teresa
The bark on the tree was just a little softer.
~ Unknown
Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self.
~ Dorothy Gilman
I think the first sign of friendship is a manifestation of how you separate from your parents and try to find a new family on your own. It's the first sign of growing.
~ Julie Delpy
The fun is having friends who help each other get free.
~ Ram Dass
A hedge between keeps friendship green.
~ German proverb
Female friendships are of rapid growth.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
You're looking like a woman now, you're mind hasn't gotten the message somehow.
~ Unknown
There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship
~ Lois Lowry
Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I know you have much to bear with in me, and I really do sometimes in you, but I have never looked at friendship in a deep sense as easy or entirely comfortable.
~ May Sarton
When you get older your dad becomes this other man rather than a scary man, and you have a friendship.
~ Tim Heidecker
But no matter what the outcome, how the friends turn out in the end, it should not stop you from making new friends. Once bitten, twice shy should not be applied to friendship.
~ Rita Zahara
Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Five years from now you will be pretty much the same as you are today except for two things: the books you read and the people you get close to.
~ Charles Jones
Surround yourself with people who move you, motivate you and mobilize you.
~ Tony Curl
[Families] are made to make you forget yourself occasionally so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.
~ Anais Nin
A real friend helps us think our best thoughts do our noblest deeds be our finest selves.
~ Anonymous
My philosophy is: anyone or anything that gives you knowledge inspires you.
~ Gabrielle Reece
Iron sharpeneth iron so a man sharp-eneth the countenance of his friend.
~ Bible
Learn from the masters, learn from your contemporaries. Always try to update yourself.
~ James Stewart