Quotes About Growth

More depended on the student than on the school.

If I've reached the place where I'm a good influence on anybody, it's time I cultivated some new vices.

J]uvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue--indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge and duty and embraces it more than the self-love he was born with.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me

But that would have left no choice. This was contradiction; at cusp, choice is. By choice, spirit grows.

He grokked that this was one of the critical cusps in the growth of a being wherein contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth. He acted.

We humans have to make considerable progress before we can accept a free gift, and value it.

The moment I put it on, that suit became an old, familiar, and valued friend—and I became taller and wider across the shoulders. It could not have fit better if it had been made on my body. It knew things about me I wouldn't learn for years yet, and approved of them all.

Terra had climbed well beyond that which its

But things were not money, any more than water shared was growing-closer. Money was an idea, as abstract as an Old One's thoughts—money was a great structured symbol for balancing and healing and growing closer.

No one partner in life can supply all the possible richnesses of living to another. I speak now not only of physical sexual associations, but also of associations mental and spiritual

He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart . . . no matter what the merciless hours have done.

however the trouble with "lessons from history" is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.

What's that got to do with it? Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

The world steadily grows better because the human mind, applying itself to environment, makes it better... with hands... with tools... with horse sense and science and engineering.

I was promoted to corporal. I was promoted seven times. To corporal.

duty is an adult virtue—indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge of duty and embraces it as dearer than the self-love he was born with.

We shall drive ever forward along this line until all our citizens have above-average incomes!

If it has an impact, it means there is a war inside me. You set it off, but what you set off is my business. Anything that can burn in a person should burn. Only the things that are fireproof are worth keeping. If you can hurt my feelings, they are better off hurt, because it's an error in me.

Clement of Alexandria says in the Paedagogus: "Therefore, as it seems, it is the greatest of all disciplines to know oneself; for when a man knows himself, he knows God.

When one has grown strong and wise enough, the warring elements which cost so much suffering and anxiety, will become complementary elements and produce the great work of art which is your own life.

Often, when new growth occurs, the most dreadful things seem to happen, but then we see that they were exactly what was required.

Aphrodite energy is a valuable quality. She is in the service of personal development and wields her terrible power to make those around her grow. When it is time for growth, the old ways and the