Quotes about growth

"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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"The entrepreneurial approach is not a sideline at 3M. It is the heart of our design for growth."

Lehr, Lewis on growth   

"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   

"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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"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   

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

Malloch, Douglas on growth
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"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

Miller, Henry on growth
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"The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons."

Neal, Leonard on growth   

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

Newman, John Henry on growth
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"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   

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

Peck, M. Scott on growth   

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

Proverb, Chinese on growth
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"Climb mountains to see lowlands."

Proverb, Chinese on growth   

"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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"You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself."

Shaw, George Bernard 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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"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Socrates on growth
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"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."

Stevenson, Robert Louis on growth   

"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."

Tracy, Brian on growth
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"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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"There is no growth without discontent."

Unknown, Source on growth   

"We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness."

Williams, Bern on growth
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"Love didn't grow very well in place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark."

King, Stephen on growth
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