GROWTH

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(2679 votes)  The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(764 votes)  Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(671 votes)  The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

Matthew Arnold
1822-1888, British Poet, Critic

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(663 votes)  When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Robert Louis Stevenson
1850-1895, Scottish Essayist, Poet, Novelist

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(654 votes)  We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

R. C. Allen

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(596 votes)  Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Edward Abbey
1927-1989, American Writer

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(580 votes)  Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.

Chinese Proverb
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(558 votes)  Climb mountains to see lowlands.

Chinese Proverb
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(553 votes)  The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character, Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

Orison Swett Marden
1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine

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(549 votes)  Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

R. Buckminster Fuller
1895-1983, American Inventor, Designer, Poet, Philosopher

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(549 votes)  Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

Bruce Lee
1940-1973, Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist

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(540 votes)  The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(535 votes)  Close scrutiny will show that most ''crisis situations'' are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Maxwell Maltz
American Plastic Surgeon, Author of ''Psycho-Cybernetics''

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(522 votes)  We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.

Bern Williams

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(521 votes)  The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

Marcus T. Cicero
c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician

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(520 votes)  Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

Karl Baker

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(515 votes)  The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist

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(513 votes)  You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(508 votes)  The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Pir Vilayat Khan
1916-, Western Philosopher Teacher, Master, Author

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(504 votes)  The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life -- mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.

Julius Erving
1950-, American Basketball Player

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(504 votes)  A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(497 votes)  I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

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(496 votes)  I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient because I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient.

Wayne Dyer
1940-, American Psychotherapist, Author, Lecturer

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(493 votes)  Those who have high thoughts are ever striving; they are not happy to remain in the same place. Like swans that leave their lake and rise into the air, they leave their home and fly for a higher home.

Dhammapada
BC 300-, Buddhist Collection of Moral Aphorism

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(491 votes)  All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author

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(487 votes)  I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...

Annie Dillard
1945-, American Author, Poet

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(485 votes)  Love dies only when growth stops.

Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973, American Novelist

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(484 votes)  All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Edward Gibbon
1737-1794, British Historian

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(483 votes)  If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Anatole France
1844-1924, French Writer

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(482 votes)  I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs. But for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread -- stale and dry.

Loretta Lynn
1935-, American Musician, Singer, Songwriter

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(475 votes)  Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love.

M. Scott Peck
American Psychiatrist, Author

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(473 votes)  I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.

Charles A. Beard
American Writer

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(470 votes)  Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Elizabeth Bowen
1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

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(468 votes)  All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Calvin Coolidge
1872-1933, Thirtieth President of the USA

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(468 votes)  Growth is the only evidence of life.

John Henry Newman
1801-1890, British Religious Leader, Prelate, Writer

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(463 votes)  Every phase of evolution commences by being in a state of unstable force and proceeds through organization to equilibrium. Equilibrium having been achieved, no further development is possible without once more oversetting the A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet. Whosoever acts spoils it. Whosoever keeps loses it.

Kabbalah
BC 1200?-12700? AD, Jewish Esoteric Doctrine

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(462 votes)  Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.

Noam Chomsky
1928-, American Linguist, Political Activist

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(462 votes)  We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

Virginia Satir
American Family Therapist, Lecturer, Trainer, Author

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(458 votes)  Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

Hare Charles

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(458 votes)  By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

Saskya Pandita
1182-1251, Tibetan Grand Lama of Saskya

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(454 votes)  Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle...

Napoleon Hill
1883-1970, American Speaker, Motivational Writer, ''Think and Grow Rich''

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(454 votes)  The growth of affluence, the growth of education, has led to a shortage of morons.

Leonard Neal

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(450 votes)  Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

George Shinn

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(446 votes)  Every winner has scars.

Herbert N. Casson
American Author

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(446 votes)  Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the stronger the trees.

J. Willard Marriott
American Businessman, Founder of Marriott Hotels

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(443 votes)  If it's not growing, it's going to die.

Michael Eisner
American Business Executive, CEO of Walt Disney Productions

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(443 votes)  The entrepreneurial approach is not a sideline at 3M. It is the heart of our design for growth.

Lewis Lehr
American Businessman, President of 3M Company

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(440 votes)  Some people grow under responsibility, others merely swell.

Hubbell

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(440 votes)  Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

Ray Kroc
1902-1984, American businessman, Founder of McDonalds

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(426 votes)  Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.

Susan Coolidge
1845-1905, American Writer

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