Growth

(531 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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(266 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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(224 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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(221 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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(214 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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(206 votes)   We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

R. C. Allen

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

Karl Baker

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

Elizabeth Bowen
1899-1973, Anglo-Irish Novelist

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(166 votes)   Climb mountains to see lowlands.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(156 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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(142 votes)   Love dies only when growth stops.

Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973, American Novelist

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(135 votes)   The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(134 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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(128 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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