"The finest flowers are those transplanted, for..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard
The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.
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“Philosophy rests on a proposition that whatever is is right. Preaching begins by assuming that whatever is is wrong.”
“The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and that the true teacher is a learner.”
“Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.”
More on Growth
“The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.”
“There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.”
“To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to give up to go up. Maturity: You have to grow up to go up. If you show the way, people will want to follow you. The higher you go, the greater the number of people who will be willing to travel with you.”
More on Challenge
“One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.”
“to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.”
“Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual.”