Growing Quotes - Page 7

• I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Growing Up, Squash

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Sports, Baseball, Football

  American Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

  Mike Johanns

  Growing Up, Commitment, Agriculture

  "An Exclusive Interview: USDA Secretary Mike Johanns". Interview with Sam Gazdziak, www.provisioneronline.com. June 1, 2005.

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  Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

  Andy Rooney

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up.

  Walt Disney

  Inspirational, Children, Growing Up

  "Walt Disney World: Then, Now, & Forever". Book by Jeff Kurtti, October 7, 2008.

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• The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

  Christopher Lasch

  Family, Hunting, Diversity

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• But I never, never thought of the ministry nor did - of course, television when I was growing up, there was no television. So I didn't know anything about it.

  Pat Robertson

  Growing Up, Ministry, Television

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• My family... always had the value of the family table and these cultural influences of growing up.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Growing Up, Tables, Influence

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• A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Fathers Day, Dad, Men

  FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Jun 15, 2014

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• A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

  Arthur Hertzberg

  Suicide, Growing Up, People

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• Do not be afraid to experience your emotions; they are the path to your soul. Emotions erupt to remind us we are alive, that we are human. And to let us know we are growing. Trust yourself enough to feel what you feel.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Soul, Path, Alive

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jun 28, 2015

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• It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.

  Tove Jansson

  Life, Simple, Curiosity

  Tove Jansson (2007). “Fair Play: A Novel”, Sort of

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• Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Feelings, Growth, Development

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• I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

  Ira Levin

  Growing Up, Father, Thinking

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• Whenever there is negativity in you, if you can be aware in that moment that there is something in you that takes pleasure in it or believes it has a useful purpose, you are becoming aware of the ego directly. The moment this happens your identity has shifted from ego to awareness. This means the ego is shrinking and awareness is growing.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Believe, Mean, Negativity

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.77, Penguin

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  As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Successful, Helping Others

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• Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia, Book 2)”, p.7, HarperCollins UK

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• Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Growing Up, Order, Losing

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• Are you green and growing or ripe and rotting?

  Ray Kroc

  Inspirational, Mcdonalds, Rotting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

  Christopher Atkins

  Growing Up, Looks, Faults

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• A goal is just an awesome way to force growth on yourself.

  Deena Kastor

  Ambition, Goal, Self Motivation

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• As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Inspirational, Emotional, Waiting

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• You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you: You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth are the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

  Bruce Mau

  Inspirational, Change, Growth

  "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" by Scott Kirsner, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2000.

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• When you plant seeds in the garden, you don’t dig them up every day to see if they have sprouted yet. You simply water them and clear away the weeds; you know that the seeds will grow in time. Similarly, just do your daily practice and cultivate a kind heart. Abandon impatience and instead be content creating the causes for goodness; the results will come when they’re ready.

  Thubten Chodron

  Patience, Weed, Buddhist

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• Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.

  Charles Loring Brace

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  "The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them".

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