#Growth Quotes

“Best men oft are moulded out of faults.”

“A pal is one that is aware you while you are, understands where you have already been, accepts whatever you are becoming, and continue to, carefully means that you can develop.”

“Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.”

“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”

“The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go, and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.”

“You must let go of a thing for a new one to come to you.”

“A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.”

“A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock.”

“When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.”

“The heavens forbidBut that our loves and comforts should increaseEven as our days do grow!”

“This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet”

“One can never truly savor success until first tasting adversity.”

“That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.”

“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”

“Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.”

“Hither rolls the storm of heat;I feel its finer billows beatLike a sea which me infolds;Heat with viewless fingers moulds,Swells, and mellows, and matures,Paints, and flavors, and allures,Bird and brier inly warms,Still enriches and transforms,Gives the reed and lily length,Adds to oak and oxen strength,Transforming what it doth infold,Life out of death, new out of old.”

“The only compensation which war offers for its manifold mischiefs, is in the great personal qualities to which it gives scope and occasion.”

“But there are higher secrets of culture, which are not for the apprentices, but for proficients. These are lessons only for the brave. We must know our friends under ugly masks. The calamities are our friends.”

“The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”

“Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.”

“We all need someone who can help us do what we already can.”

“Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.”

“Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.”

“Our strength grows out of our weakness.”

“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! — it seems to say, — there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”

“O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.”

“They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad”

“Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.”

“And ruin`d love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater”

“Pain, indolence, sterility, endless ennui have also their lesson for you, if you are great.”

“Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.”

“No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!”

“As men get on in life, they acquire a love for sincerity, and somewhat less solicitude to be lulled or amused. In the progress ofthe character, there is an increasing faith in the moral sentiment, and a decreasing faith in propositions.”

“Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.”

“Every mind is different; and the more it is unfolded, the more pronounced is that difference.”

“If you would lift me up, you've got to be on higher ground.”

“Men who know the same things are not long the best company for each other.”

“To improve is to change.”

“A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.”

“Tears water our growth.”

“In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.”

“The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings”

“If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.”

“A friend is Janus-faced: he looks to the past and the future. He is the child of all my foregoing hours, the prophet of those to come, and the harbinger of a greater friend.”

“Again, the great number of cultivated men keep each other up to a high standard. The habit of meeting well-read and knowing men teaches the art of omission and selection.”

“Friendship is an order of nobility; from its revelations we come more worthily into nature.”

“The years teach much which the days never know.”

“We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.”

“The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.”

“Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.”