Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
~ Edward Abbey ~
We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.
~ R. C. Allen ~
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.
~ Matthew Arnold ~
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
~ Karl Baker ~
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.
~ Charles A. Beard ~
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
~ Elizabeth Bowen ~
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
~ Hare Charles ~
We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.
~ Frank A. Clark ~
The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
~ Confucius ~
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.
~ Susan Coolidge ~
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.
~ Wayne Dyer ~
If it's not growing, it's going to die.
~ Michael Eisner ~
Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.
~ Hubbell ~
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
~ William James ~
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 ~
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
~ Pir Vilayat Khan ~
Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow.
~ C.R. Lawton ~
The entrepreneurial approach is not a sideline!M. It is the heart of our design for growth.
~ Lewis Lehr ~
Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.
~ Maxwell Maltz ~
Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.
~ J. Willard Marriott ~
The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.
~ Leonard Neal ~
Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.
~ Chinese Proverb ~
We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
~ Virginia Satir ~
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.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~
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 ~
