"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."

Twain, Mark on growth
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"The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old."

James, William on growth
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"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle..."

Hill, Napoleon on growth
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"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."

Hesse, Hermann on growth
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"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

France, Anatole on growth
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"The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life -- mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical."

Erving, Julius on growth
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

Eliot, George on growth
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"If it's not growing, it's going to die."

Eisner, Michael on growth
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"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."

Coolidge, Susan on growth
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"All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work."

Coolidge, Calvin on growth
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"The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development."

Confucius on growth
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"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 on growth
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"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow."

Lawton, C.R. on growth
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"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."

Lee, Bruce on growth
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"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown."

Shinn, George on growth
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"We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth."

Satir, Virginia on growth
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"Climb mountains to see lowlands."

Proverb, Chinese on growth   

"Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river."

Proverb, Chinese on growth
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"Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love."

Peck, M. Scott on growth   

"By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top."

Pandita, Saskya on growth   

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

Malloch, Douglas on growth
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"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on growth   

"Close scrutiny will show that most crisis situations are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are."

Maltz, Maxwell on growth
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"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."

Lynn, Loretta on growth   

"Love dies only when growth stops."

Buck, Pearl S. on growth
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"In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important."

Brown, Les on growth
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"Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities."

Bowen, Elizabeth on growth
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"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."

Hubbard, Elbert on ability
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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."

Holmes, John Andrew on ability
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on ability
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"There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability."

Half, Robert on ability
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"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."

Ford, Henry on ability
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"Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study."

Bacon, Francis on ability
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"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do."

Christie, Agatha on ability
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"The boy was as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker."

Pitts, Earl on ability
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"The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on ability
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