Quotes about Growth
Human beings with all their faults and strengths constitute the mechanism of a social movement. They must make mistakes and learn from them, make more mistakes and learn anew. They must taste defeat as well as success, and discover how to live with each. Time and action are the teachers.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
our slogan must not be "Burn, baby, burn." It must be, "Build, baby, build." "Organize, baby, organize." Yes, our slogan must be "Learn, baby, learn," so that we can earn, baby, earn.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
you will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile,laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
we will make progress if we freely admit that we have no magic.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Lord, help me to accept my tools. However dull they are, help me to accept them. And then Lord, after I have accepted my tools, then help me to set out and do what I can do with my tools.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dark yesterday can be transformed into bright tomorrow.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The furrows upon his brow had been cut a little deeper by Time's chisel.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
It is, however, when the human soul is ploughed and harrowed by suffering that the seeds of truth may be planted
— Arthur Conan Doyle
When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.
— AW Pink