Growth Quotes

"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?" "The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and become fully independent" "Do not fear mistakes You will know failure Continue to reach out" "Without continual growth and progress such words as improvement achievement and success have no meaning" "Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late" "Sometimes you need to be patient with your winners to let them run." "Pressure makes diamonds " "The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change" "Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great" "If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life" "Ignorance is no crime and that young people should not be blamed for their ignorance, but somehow we should get around to doing something about it" "I've been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape." "The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck" "Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure." "You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born." "Ambition can creep as well as soar" "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill Our antagonist is our helper" "Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening." "It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s “mature” critics often are." "Men do change and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass"