Quotes about Growth
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
— Oscar Wilde
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
— Oscar Wilde
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
— Oscar Wilde
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
— Oscar Wilde
I have got to make everything that has happened to me good for me
— Oscar Wilde
Youth is the only thing worth having.
— Oscar Wilde
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.
— Oscar Wilde
Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it
— Confucius
A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?
— Confucius
They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.
— Confucius
If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.
— Confucius
You are not yet able to serve men, how can you serve spirits?
— Confucius