Growth Quotes

We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.

Frank A. Clark

If it's not growing, it's going to die.

Michael Eisner

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.

LaoTzu

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

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Johann von Goethe

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Terry Pratchett

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either your sails or your rudder be broken you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a stand still in mid-seas.For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and a passion unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction. Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion, that it may sing; and let it direct your passion with reason, that your passion may live through its own daily ressurrection, and like the phoenix rise above its own ashes.

Kahlil Gibran

Love dies only when growth stops.

Pearl Buck

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Pearl Buck

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Bruce Lee

Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M Scott Peck

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.

Steve Maraboli

The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.

Thomas Henry Huxley, Life and Le

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anais Nin, The Diaries of Ana

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, The Deer Park

All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

Herodotus

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

Ronald Reagan

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

George Eliot

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

Mark Twain

Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.

J. Willard Marriott