| "We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide." »Nathan M. Pusey |
| "It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated." »Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| "The progress of the rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error." »Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire |
| "What passing bells for these who die as cattleOnly the monstrous anger of the guns.Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattleCan patter out their hasty orisons." »Wilfred Owen |
| "growth is the only evidence of life." »John Henry Newman |
| "growth itself contains the germ of happiness." »Pearl Sydenstricker Buck |
| "We find comfort among those who agree with us--growth among those who don't." »Frank A. Clark |
| "Change is inevitable, growth is intentional." »Glenda Cloud |
| "Life is change. growth is optional. Choose wisely." »Karen Kaiser Clark |
| "Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death." »Albert Einstein |
| "Do you want my one-word secret of happiness--it's growth--mental, financial, you name it." »Harold S. Geneen |
| "The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice." »George Eliot |
| "Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." »William Pitt |
| "Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it the first law of personal growth." »Peter McWilliams |
| "A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love." »Pearl Buck |
| "Risk is essential. There is not growth of inspiration in staying within what is safe and comfortable. Once you find out what you do best, why not try something else" »Alex Noble |
| "Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit." »M Scott Peck |
| "Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions." »Russell G. Alexander |
| "Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance." »William Ellery Channing |
| "All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience." »Henry Miller |
| "If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation." »Xenophon |
| "Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing." »William Butler Yeats |
| "Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives." »Mary Ann Brussat |
| "True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation." »George Washington |
| "Nirvana or lasting enlightenment or true spiritual growth can be achieved only through persistent exercise of real love." »M Scott Peck |
| "If the scissors are not used daily on the beard, it will not be long before the beard is, by its luxuriant growth, pretending to be the head." »Hakim Jami |
| "growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown." »George Shinn |
| "The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live." »Morris Adler |
| "Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain." »John Dryden |
| "There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder." »Ronald Reagan |
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