All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
“Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.”
“Rejoice in thy youth,’ said the sunbeam; ‘rejoice in thy fresh growth and in the young life that is in thee.”
Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all.
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.