Quotes about Growth
Change is the law of life.
— John F. Kennedy
Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.
— Anonymous
At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.
— Oscar Wilde
A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If you would lift me you must be on a higher ground.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
— James A. Garfield
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
— James A. Garfield
I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
— George Eliot
To lose Is to learn.
— Anonymous
No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
— Epictetus