Quotes about Growth

Every[one] I meet is in some way my superior.

See yonder leafless tree against the sky, How they diffuse themselves into the air, And ever subdividing separate, Limbs into branches, branches into twigs, As if they loved the element, & hasted To dissipate their being into it.

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven.

What you are afraid to do is a clear indication of what you need to do

A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.

Learn how to carry a friendship greatly, whether or not it is returned. Why should one regret if the receiver is not equally generous? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. If he is unequal, he will presently pass away; but thou art enlarged by thy own shining.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.

The good are befriended even by weakness and defect. As no man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him so no man had ever a defect that was not somewhat made useful to him. ...Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults...

As a plant upon the earth, so a man rests upon the bosom of God; he is nourished by unfailing fountains, and draws, at his need, inexhaustible power. Who can set bounds to the possibilities of man?

Our strength grows out of our weakness