Quotes about Growth
It's a daily plan to solve the problems thrown at us and emerge stronger. You pick things up on the way, and you even learn from the players you work with, but your overall philosophy doesn't change.
— Roberto Di Matteo
Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
— St. Augustine
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
— St. Augustine
If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.
— St. Augustine
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
— St. Augustine
The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls.
— St. Augustine
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
— St. Augustine
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
— St. Augustine
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept.
— Francis de Sales
Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.
— Francis de Sales
You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working and just so, you learn to love by loving. All those who think to learn in any other way deceive themselves.
— Francis de Sales
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
— Saint Jerome