Quotes about Growth
In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.
— Marcus Aurelius
Some degree of expression is necessary for growth, but it should be little in proportion to the full life.
— Margaret Fuller
Conformity is that jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
— John F. Kennedy
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose plant it this afternoon'
— John F. Kennedy
And yet, notwithstanding all these continual persecutions and horrible punishments, the Church daily increased, deeply rooted in the doctrine of the apostles and of men apostolical, and watered plentously with the blood of saints.
— John Foxe
What you are able to walk away from will determine what God can bring you to!
— John Hagee
The Hebrew word for meek really means "to be molded."
— John Hagee
To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.
— John Henry Newman
Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
— John Keats
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
— John Lennon
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
— John Lennon
If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.
— John Mayer