Quote: We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome. Author: R. C. Allen
Quote: 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. Author: Matthew Arnold 1822-1888, British Poet, Critic
Quote: Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. Author: Karl Baker
Quote: I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail. Author: Charles A. Beard American Writer
Quote: Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. Author: Elizabeth Bowen 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist
Quote: All of us need to grow continuously in our lives. Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Author: Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973, American Novelist
Quote: Love dies only when growth stops. Author: Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973, American Novelist
Quote: Don't go through life, grow through life. Author: Eric Butterworth
Quote: Every winner has scars. Author: Herbert N. Casson American Author
Quote: Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. Author: Hare Charles
Quote: The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author
Quote: Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. Author: Noam Chomsky 1928-, American Linguist, Political Activist
Quote: The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured. Author: Marcus T. Cicero c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician
Quote: We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't. Author: Frank A. Clark
Quote: The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Author: Calvin Coolidge 1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA
Quote: Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf. Author: Susan Coolidge 1845-1905, American Writer
Quote: 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. Author: Dhammapada BC 300-, Buddhist Collection of Moral Aphorism
Quote: I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them... Author: Annie Dillard 1945-, American Author, Poet
Quote: I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient. Author: Wayne Dyer 1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer
Quote: If it's not growing, it's going to die. Author: Michael Eisner American Business Executive, CEO of Walt Disney Productions
Quote: The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life -- mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical. Author: Julius Erving 1950-, American Basketball Player
Quote: If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. Author: Anatole France 1844-1924, French Writer
Quote: Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind. Author: R. Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher
Quote: All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. Author: Edward Gibbon 1737-1794, British Historian
Quote: Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. Author: Herodotus BC 484-425, Greek Historian
Quote: 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. Author: Hermann Hesse 1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet
Quote: Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle... Author: Napoleon Hill 1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''
Quote: Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell. Author: Hubbell
Quote: The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. Author: William James 1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author
Quote: Every phase of evolution commences by being in a state of unstable force and proceeds through organization to equilibrium. Equilibrium having been achieved, no further development is possible without once more oversetting the A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. Whosoever acts spoils it. Whosoever keeps loses it. Author: Kabbalah BC 1200?-12700? AD, Jewish Esoteric Doctrine
Quote: The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness. Author: Pir Vilayat Khan 1916-, Western Philosopher Teacher, Master, Author
Quote: Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting? Author: Ray Kroc 1902-1984, American businessman, Founder of McDonalds
Quote: 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. Author: Lao-Tzu BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''
Quote: Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow. Author: C.R. Lawton
Quote: 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. Author: Bruce Lee 1940-1973, Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist
Quote: The entrepreneurial approach is not a sideline at 3M. It is the heart of our design for growth. Author: Lewis Lehr American Businessman, President of 3M Company
Quote: I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread -- stale and dry. Author: Loretta Lynn 1935-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Quote: Close scrutiny will show that most ''crisis situations'' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. Author: Maxwell Maltz American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''
Quote: The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character, Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees. Author: J. Willard Marriott American Businessman, Founder of Marriott Hotels
Quote: All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. Author: Henry Miller 1891-1980, American Author
Quote: The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons. Author: Leonard Neal
Quote: Growth is the only evidence of life. Author: John Henry Newman 1801-1890, British Religious Leader, Prelate, Writer
Quote: By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. Author: Saskya Pandita 1182-1251, Tibetan Grand Lama of Saskya
Quote: Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love. Author: M. Scott Peck American Psychiatrist, Author
Quote: Climb mountains to see lowlands. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river. Author: Chinese Proverb Sayings of Chinese Origin
Quote: We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth. Author: Virginia Satir American Family Therapist, Lecturer, Trainer, Author
Quote: You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown. Author: George Shinn
Quote: The unexamined life is not worth living. Author: Socrates BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens
Quote: When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. Author: Robert Louis Stevenson 1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist
Quote: Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars. Author: Brian Tracy American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman
Quote: 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. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: There is no growth without discontent. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness. Author: Bern Williams