Quotes about Growth

Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally — and often far more — worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort and effort means work.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

In almost every story, the fiercest battles often take place within.