Quotes about Growth

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Even though I be bound in the Name, I have not yet become perfected in Jesus Christ.

The world tells us in a thousand different ways that the bigger we become, the freer we will be. The richer, the more beautiful, and the more powerful we grow, the more security, liberty, and happiness we will experience. And yet, the gospel tells us just the opposite, that the smaller we become, the freer we will be.

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

All I had was to improve on their strategy [...] anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business—you know they're doing something that you aren't.

I'm man enough to tell you that I can't put my finger on exactly what my philosophy is right now, but I'm flexible.

A few days later, however, he wrote in one of his memo books this, which he let me read, "Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Not the "not" but the "not yet.

Fire feeds on obstacles.