Growth Quotes - Page 5

• Everything is a gift of the universe -even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Happiness, Success, Frustration

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• True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

  George Washington

  Friendship, Family, True Friend

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.239

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• Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up.

  Plautus

  Spring, Men, Oats

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 344-45, Trinummus, IV. 4. 128, 1922.

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• Do you want my one-word secret of happiness? It's growth - - mental, financial you name it.

  Harold Geneen

  Happiness, Names, Inner Peace

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• I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Thinking, Doe

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• A soulmate is the person who makes your sould grow the most.

  Caroline Myss

  Soulmate, Growing, Mystic

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• Every winner has scars.

  Herbert Newton Casson

  Scar, Winner

  National Printer Journalist, Vol 51, Nr. 7-12, p. 28, 1933.

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• The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual.

  Samuel Smiles

  Inspirational, Self, Roots

  'Self-Help' (1859)

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• In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

  Audre Lorde

  Differences, Progress, Literature

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another.

  Norman Mailer

  Motivational, Organization, Littles

  Norman Mailer (1972). “Existential errands”, Signet

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• A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Real Friends, Greatness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.406, Library of America

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• With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

  Gail Sheehy

  Way, Vulnerable, Structure

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Men, Seems

  Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson, William Shenstone (1861). “Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith, Tobias Smollett, Samuel Johnson and William Shenstone”, p.6

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• Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

  George Eliot

  Children, Men, Men And Women

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6426, Delphi Classics

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• Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.

  Alexander Pope

  Strong, Men, Mercury

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.205

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• Love dies only when growth stops.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Marriage, Dies

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• True growth is a process which one allows to happen rather than causes to happen.

  Gerald May

  Causes, Process, Happens

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• Engaging in an authentic, meaningful conversation with consumers will be the key to marketing success and growth, even if that means acknowledging negative feedback; transparency is paramount.

  Ron Blake

  Meaningful, Keys, Marketing

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• Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in anger, resentment, shame, or guilt cloud our spirit mind. The truth is, everything that has happened had to happen. It was a growth experience. There was something you needed to know or learn. If you stay angry, hurt, afraid, ashamed, or guilty, you miss the lesson. You will be stuck in a cloud of pain.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 15, 2015

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• What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.

  Mark Twain

  Law

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.231, Courier Corporation

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• Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1940). “The Wave of the Future a Confession of Faith”

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• The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

  Henry Louis Gates

  America, People, History

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

  "Magic Touch: Six Things You Can Do to Connect in a Disconnected World" by Carolyn Rosenblatt, www.forbes.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled “crisis situations” are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Wrestling, Opportunity, Cybernetics

  "Psycho-Cybernetics Deluxe Edition: The Original Text of the Classic Guide to a New Life".

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