Growth Quotes

"Little by little, I’m getting better all the time. I’ve not lost the passion to play."

- Lionel Messi

"Just cause you live in the ghetto doesn't mean you can't grow."

- Tupac Shakur

"We're made to grow. You either evolve or you disappear."

- Tupac Shakur

"My attitude is that if you push me towards a weakness, I will turn that weakness into a strength."

- Michael Jordan

"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself—always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested in adversity."

- Jimmy Carter

"It cannot be repeated too often that nothing is more fertile in prodigies than the art of being free; but there is nothing more arduous than the apprenticeship of liberty."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating."

- Ronald Reagan

"Political democracy … with all its threatening evils, supplies a training school for making first class men. It is life’s gymnasium, not of good only, but of all."

- Walt Whitman

"From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow."

- Aeschylus

"As long as you live. there's something new everyday."

- Dolly Parton

"Children deserve to grow and learn in a place and alongside a force that is as wild and alive as they are."

- Nicolette Sowder

"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."

- Walt Whitman

"Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Through every meltdown, I see not just a challenge, but a chance for growth – for us both."

- Jane T.

"When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower."

- Alexander Den Heijer

"Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable."

- Twyla Tharp

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

- C.S. Lewis

"When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind."

- Patrick Rothfuss

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

- Virginia Woolf

"When a child first catches adults out -- when it first walks into his grave little head that adults do not always have divine intelligence, that their judgments are not always wise, their thinking true, their sentences just -- his world falls into panic desolation. The gods are fallen and all safety gone. And there is one sure thing about the fall of gods: they do not fall a little; they crash and shatter or sink deeply into green muck. It is a tedious job to build them up again; they never quite shine. And the child's world is never quite whole again. It is an aching kind of growing."

- John Steinbeck

""Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.""

- Walt Disney

"If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I’ll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"

- J.M. Barrie

"Embrace the challenges and learn from them. They will make you stronger."

"Every obstacle is an opportunity to learn and grow."

"Like a delicate flower, you bloom with grace and beauty."

"We fall. We learn and that's how we grow"

"Grow your dreams on weekends like sunflowers in sunshine."

"Milestones symbolize your incredible growth and inspire new dreams."

"I grow towards my interests, like a plant reaching for the sun."

"Raising a daughter is like growing a flower. You give it your best. If you’ve done your job well, she blooms. And after that, she leaves."