quotations about growth
Growing is increasing, enlarging and progressing. Growing is learning, changing and maturing! Growing is risking, stretching and striving, not necessarily for fame or fortune, but to reach your own fullest potential in every aspect of your life!
AMY-TERESE SMITH
Keep on Growing!
Growing up doesn't actually hurt. Well, it might hurt when your dad remarries and moves to a different state, or your best friend since kindergarten doesn't invite you to a middle-school sleepover, or when you drop your cafeteria tray and that girl with the long blond hair who smells like Hostess Fruit Pies totally laughs at you. Uh, just for example.
KEN JENNINGS
Because I Said So!
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
ANAÏS NIN
attributed, Investigating Subjectivity
Growing up isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'm ten-and-a-half years old, and as far as I can tell, growing up means I have to dress myself, tie my own shoelaces, set the table, wash the dishes and make lunches for my little brother Jake and me. The list grows longer all the time.
DARLENE RYAN
Five Minutes More
Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind; how the observation of last year seems childish, superficial; how this year -- even this week -- even with this new phrase -- it seems to us that we have grown to a new maturity. It may be a fallacious persuasion, but at least it is stimulating, and so long as it persists, one does not stagnate.
VITA SACKVILLE-WEST
Twelve Days
Change is inevitable ... growth is optional.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
A Leader's Heart
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH
The Wave of the Future
The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds. It may come to its full stature in an hour.
L. M. MONTGOMERY
Rilla of Ingleside
Growing up doesn't mean growing out of my favorite shoes--not if they make me happy, not if they're good for dancing.
REBECCA WOOLF
Rockabye: From Wild to Child
Everything had been done so quietly that Peter was quite unaware of his friends' sad fate. He only knew that he was all alone, that Wendy and Michael, and John, and all the Lost Boys who had been his companions were on their way from the Never-Never-Never-Land to the country of the ordinary people who wear tall hats and frock coats as soon as they are old enough, and grow up one after the other.
J. M. BARRIE
Peter Pan
Growing up is a moving toward becoming all that we are capable of, everyone is doing it, at age fourteen or nineteen or sixty-five.
RUTH BOCKNER
Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teenagers
Grow within the flow.
TIMOTHY LEARY
Your Brain Is God
Growing up is like playing connect-the-dots: You learn something new every day, and the more you know the more you connect to the world around you.
ANNE KATZ
Girl in the Know
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
GEORGE HENRY LEWES
The Spanish Drama
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Traveller
Men are but children of a larger growth.
JOHN DRYDEN
All For Love
The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals.
KAHLIL GIBRAN
The Prophet
A boy growing up is like a small tree started on its growth. In the forest, it has a better chance to survive. If the wind and many kinds of traffic can get to the tree while it is young, chances are it will not make a go of life. If it does make it, the wind will twist and warp the tree to fit its own needs. You can protect the tree from harm, until it takes roots and gets some strength to its body and has a chance of surviving.
SMOKEY CRABTREE
Smokey and the Fouke Monster
Self growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no higher investment.
STEPHEN COVEY
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
JULIA CAMERON
The Artist's Way