Quotes About Growth

A new untruth is better than an old truth.

A person's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it round. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons.

The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of larger ideas, never returns to its original size.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

There are many things which we can afford to forget which it is yet well to learn.

But the moment you turn a corner you see another straight stretch ahead and there comes some further challenge to your ambition.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,As the swift seasons roll!Leave thy low-vaulted past!

An old author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his early years.

A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving.

no pasa media hora sin que me nazca una nueva personalidad.

Every marriage was imperfect and the destroying agents, the imperfections, were there, unseen, from the start.

A man is made by his circumstances", said Guy. "If you want to change him, you must change his circumstances.

Very often, the things that you're most afraid of, are the things that you really just need to go for it.