Quotes about growth

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

Abbey, Edward on growth
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"We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome."

Allen, R. C. on growth
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"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."

Arnold, Matthew on growth   

"Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees."

Baker, Karl on growth
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"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."

Beard, Charles A. on growth   

"Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities."

Bowen, Elizabeth 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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"All of us need to grow continuously in our lives."

Brown, Les on growth   

"Love dies only when growth stops."

Buck, Pearl S. on growth
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"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."

Buck, Pearl S. on growth   

"Don't go through life, grow through life."

Butterworth, Eric on growth
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"Every winner has scars."

Casson, Herbert N. on growth
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"Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn."

Charles, Hare on growth   

"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."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on growth
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"Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists."

Chomsky, Noam on growth   

"The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured."

Cicero, Marcus T. on growth   

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

Clark, Frank A. 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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"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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"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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"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 on growth   

"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..."

Dillard, Annie on growth   

"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."

Dyer, Wayne on growth
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"If it's not growing, it's going to die."

Eisner, Michael on growth
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"The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice."

Eliot, George 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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"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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"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."

Fuller, R. Buckminster on growth
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"All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance."

Gibbon, Edward on growth   

"Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on growth
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"All men's gains are the fruit of venturing."

Herodotus 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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"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle..."

Hill, Napoleon on growth
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"Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell."

Hubbell 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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"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."

Kabbalah on growth   

"The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness."

Khan, Pir Vilayat on growth
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"Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?"

Kroc, Ray 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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