Quotes about Growth

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time.

Singleness can be a wonderful furnace.