Quotes About Growth

minnows who go to a whale to learn how to grow bigger are likely to be swallowed in the process.

Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Time is required to produce that union of minds which alone can produce all the good we aim at. Our patience will achieve more than our force.

It has been objected that I am a boy," said Roosevelt wearily—he had been hearing the charge for years—"but I can only offer the time-honored reply, that years will cure me of that." He

Someone said a writer should read three times more than he or she writes.

That a life could be changed posited the still more thrilling notion that one had a thing called a life, a wonderful being that was growing silently inside like an infant.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.

A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind.' from a radio broadcast in 1947

Sweat and blood and health and youth go into every cabbage. Did you know that, Julie? One doesn't despise them as food, knowing that.

wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up.

what I wanted to get at is the value difference between pornographic playing cards when you're a kid, and pornographic playing cards when you're older. It's that when you're a kid you use the cards as a substitute for a real experience, and when you're older you use real experience as a substitute for the fantasy.

Financial repression returned to the West after 2008. Short-term rates in the United States and Europe were held below the level of inflation and remained negative in real terms for years on end.

whose father was Aeolus, god of the winds, and whose mother was a Caledonian nymph … As soon as he was fully grown his father taught him the secret of catching the wind in balloons.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second more personal and important, from himself.

But as truth and reason seldom find so favourable a reception in the world, and as the wisdom of Providence frequently condescends to use the passions of the human heart, and the general circumstances of mankind, as instruments to execute its purpose; we may still be permitted, though with becoming submission, to ask, not indeed what were the first, but what were the secondary causes of the rapid growth of the Christian church. It

Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures;

Ambition is a weed of quick and early vegetation in the vineyard of Christ.

In reality, Rome had grown too big for lots of people to handle its vast affairs any longer by committee.  

If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.

That was my lesson. I needed to act differently.

So I started trying to behave as if my defects of character were gone. I considered how I would behave if I were who I wanted to be, and I acted that way to the best of my poor acting ability. I made lots of mistakes along the way, but I began to improve with time. It was hard.

In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.

There once was a student named Bessor, Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!