Quotes about Growth
Too big to cry too young to laugh...
— Abraham Lincoln
To remain as I am is impossible; I must die or be better, it appears to me.
— Abraham Lincoln
We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
— Abraham Lincoln
A healthy person can accept criticism.
— Adrian Rogers
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
— Aesop
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
— Alain de Botton
It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.
— Alain de Botton
Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.
— Alain de Botton
Loneliness makes us more capable of true intimacy if ever better opportunities do come along. We might be isolated for now, but we'll be capable of far closer, more interesting bonds with anyone we do eventually locate.
— Alain de Botton
The love of flowers is a consequence of modesty and an accommodation with disappointment. Some things need to go permanently wrong before we can start to admire the stem of a rose or the petals of a bluebell.
— Alain de Botton
Rather than struggling to become bigger fish, we might concentrate our energies on finding smaller ponds or smaller species to swim with, so our own size will trouble us less.
— Alain de Botton
We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
— Alain de Botton