Growth Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

50 Growth Quotes
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“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Albert Einstein Quotes
“If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.”
John Maxwell Quotes
“Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...”
Lawrence Clark Powell Quotes
“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
Mark Victor Hansen Quotes
“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes
“He who moves not forward, goes backward”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
Irish Sayings Quotes
“But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Deuteronomy (ch. XXXII, v. 15)
“What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets; May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.”
Robert Browning Quotes
Source: A Death in the Desert (l. 447)
“Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne Lead gradual.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes
Source: Religious Musings
“The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.”
Lewis Duncombe Quotes
Source: Translation of De Minimis Maxima
“Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Source: The Traveller (l. 126)
“It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it falls and die that night-- It was the plant and flower of Light.”
Ben Jonson Quotes
Source: Pindaric Ode on the Death of Sir H. Morison
“A lover of Jesus and of the truth . . . can lift himself above himself in spirit. [Lat., Amator Jesu et veritatis . . . potest se . . . elevare supra seipsum in spiritu.]”
Thomas a Kempis Quotes
Source: Imitation of Christ (II, 1)
“Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: Ladder of St. Augustine
“Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: Ladder of St. Augustine (st. 2)
“And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.”
George MacDonald Quotes
Source: Within and Without (pt. I, sc. 3)
“Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their clubs into shape.”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes
Source: Apology for Raimond Sebond (bk. II, ch. XII)
“"Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.”
Michael Eyquen de Montaigne Quotes
Source: Essays (bk. II, ch. XII)
“Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli.]”
Petronius (Petronius Arbiter) Quotes
Source: Cena (44)
“He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. [Lat., Fungino genere est; capite se totum tegit.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes
Source: Trinummus (IV, 2, 9)
“Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up. [Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris. Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos, Si in obserendo possint interfieri.]”
Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus) Quotes
Source: Trinummus (IV, r, 128)
“Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 136)
“'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.”
Alexander Pope Quotes
Source: Essay on Man (ep. II, l. 178)