Enough shovels of earth — a mountain. Enough pails of water — a river. – Chinese Proverb
Climb mountains to see lowlands. – Chinese Proverb
When a bonsai stops growing, you know its dead. – Japanese Proverb
The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. – Matthew Arnold
Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees. – Karl Baker
Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities. – Elizabeth Bowen
Spend in pure converse our eternal day; Think each in each, immediately wise; Learn all we lacked before; hear, know, and say What this tumultuous body now denies; And feel, who have laid our groping hands away; And see, no longer blinded by our eyes. – Rupert Brooke
In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. – Les Brown
All of us need to grow continuously in our lives. – Les Brown
Love dies only when growth stops. – Pearl Buck
Every winner has scars. – Herbert N. Casson
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. – G. K. Chesterton
Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists. – Noam Chomsky
We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who dont. – Frank A. Clark
The perfecting of ones self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development. – Confucius
