Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.
~ Karl Baker

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
~ Edward Abbey

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.
~ R. C. Allen

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

I am convinced that the world is not a mere bog in which men and woman trample themselves in the mire and die. Something magnificent is taking place here amid the cruelties and tragedies, and the supreme challenge to intelligence is that of making the noblest and best in our curious heritage prevail.
~ Charles A. Beard

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
~ Elizabeth Bowen

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.
~ Les Brown

In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important.
~ Les Brown

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
~ Pearl S. Buck

Love dies only when growth stops.
~ Pearl S. Buck

Don't go through life, grow through life.
~ Eric Butterworth

Every winner has scars.
~ Herbert N. Casson

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
~ Hare Charles

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.
~ Gilbert 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

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
~ Marcus T. Cicero

We find comfort among those who agree with us-growth among those who don't.
~ Frank A. Clark

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.
~ Confucius

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
~ Calvin Coolidge

Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.
~ Susan Coolidge