Growth Quotes


Everybody wants to be somebody, but nobody wants to grow. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Growth 276
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same. Norman Mailer Growth 216
When life is sweet say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter say thank you and grow. Shauna Niequist Growth 196
I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value. Hermann Hesse Growth 182
Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river. Chinese Proverbs Growth 124
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. Lao Tzu Growth 120
Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home. Dhammapada Growth 109
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems struggle to master them and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills capacities views about life. Carl Rogers Growth 107
Climb mountains to see lowlands. Chinese Proverbs Growth 104
My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. Osip Mandelstam Growth 99
Rocks in my path I keep them all. With them I shall build my castle. Nemo Nox Growth 96
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Life is growth and motion; a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. Brooks Atkinson Growth 96
Maturity knows no age. It is a concept that can only become a reality when one completely reliquishes their childhood tendencies and fully embraces the ideals valued by those already matured. Andy Mastay Growth 93
Spend in pure converse our eternal day;Think each in each, immediately wise;Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and sayWhat this tumultuous body now denies;And feel, who have laid our groping hands away;And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. Rupert Brooke Growth 90
Love dies only when growth stops. Pearl Buck Growth 90
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken but I hope into a better shape. Charles Dickens Growth 90
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. George Eliot Growth 89
Things do not grow better they remain as they are. It is we who grow better by the changes we make in ourselves. Swami Vivekananda Growth 89
First silence makes us pilgrims. Secondly silence guards the fire within. Thirdly silence teaches us to speak. Henri J.M. Nouwen Growth 88
Dont follow someone elses map. You should glean teachings from all directions keeping true to those that bring progress yet remaining open to changes in yourself. Deepak Chopra Growth 87
There is no growth without discontent. Source Unknown Growth 86
that a child is not an event alleged or otherwise a mistake or accident or crime. . . he is by definition more than this sum rather than division a living promissory note. John Burnham Schwartz Growth 86
There was after all no mystery in the end of love no mystery but the mystery of love itself which was large certainly but as real as grass as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth. John Crowley Growth 85
No person trying to take responsibility for her or his identity should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. Adrienne Rich Growth 85
Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things and never the other way around. Jerry L. Lewis Growth 84
We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs. Eric Berne Growth 82
There is no adversity that cannot bear a gift and no gift that cannot bring adversity. Mollie Marti Growth 80
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. Matthew Arnold Growth 79
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. Aldous Huxley Growth 77
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. Saint Augustine of Hippo Growth 76
Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive my ethical integrity my intellectual integrity. Jonathan Franzen Growth 76
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. Morihei Ueshiba Growth 76
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. Johann von Goethe Growth 74
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Epictetus Growth 74
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Calvin Coolidge Growth 74
In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. Les Brown Growth 74
The hate people hold on to for so long is what keeps them from feeling the pain theyre most afraid of. deal with it. grow. Darnell Lamont Walker Growth 72
Im unpredictable I never know where Im going until I get there Im so random Im always growing learning changing Im never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me is I will always do exactly what I want to do. C. JoyBell C.Growth 70
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent. Johann von Goethe Growth 70
Acceptance makes an incredible fertile soil for the seeds of change. Steve Maraboli Growth 70
Your hand opens and closes opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds wings. Rumi Growth 70
If experience is the best teacher theres nothing that comes close to the experience of life. Michael A. Singer Growth 69
The cost of growth is always a small act of violence. Jodi Picoult Growth 69
Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. Maxwell Maltz Growth 68
Books... are like lobster shells we surround ourselves with em then we grow out of em and leave em behind as evidence of our earlier stages of development. Dorothy L. Sayers Growth 68
Thought is creative Fear attracts like energy Love is all there is. Neale Donald Conversations with God Author Growth 68
I did not have implants, I just had a growth spurt. Britney Spears Growth 68
Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young healthy forest. William Golding Growth 67
The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons. Leonard Neal Growth 67
You can curse the moon Curse the day yourre born But the pilot of your plane is you Were all in this world by a greater plan Look up lift your wings Because you can The Light Said The First Song album Phyllis Wheaton Growth 66

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