growth Quotes

One thing I really envy about my friends who have kids is that as their children develop, they're able to revisit their own developmental stages and recognise themselves and undo a lot of things they decided.

I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.