Growth Quotes
Sad Quotes about Growth

Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy

I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll

Careers and relationships also have their cycles
of birth, growth, and death -
to be followed by rebirth and the renewal of the cycle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If we spend the time we waste in sighing
for the perfect golden fruit
in fulfilling the conditions of its growth,
happiness will come, must come.
It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe.
If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well,
the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness.
- Helen Keller

Increase of material comforts,
it may be generally laid down,
does not in any way whatsoever
conduce to moral growth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We work with the people not out of pity
but out of respect for their potential for growth and development,
both as individuals and as communities.
- Jimmy Yen

True friendship is a plant of slow growth,
and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity
before it is entitled to the appellation.
- George Washington

The key to growth is the introduction of
higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
- Lao Tzu

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Loving, hating, having expectations:
all these are attachments.
Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being.
- Lao Tzu

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.
- George Washington

As sure as the spring will follow the winter,
prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.
- Bo Bennett

Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite
world is an impossibility.
- E. F. Schumacher

This generation has given up on growth.
They're just hoping for survival.
- Penelope Spheeris

There are no great limits to growth because there are
no limits of human intelligence,
imagination, and wonder.
- Ronald Reagan

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically.
We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly.
We grow partially. We are relative.
We are mature in one realm, childish in another.
- Anais Nin

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection
can and should go hand in hand.
- Christopher Dodd

Education is a social process.
Education is growth.
Education is, not a preparation for life;
education is life itself.
- John Dewey

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
- Ellen Glasgow

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

Many a genius has been slow of growth.
Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring
up into beauty like a reed.
- George Henry Lewes

We've got a bit of growth a bit earlier than expected.
- Stuart Rose

Government is not the generator of economic growth;
working people are.
- Phil Gramm

The difficulty for Mr. Obama will be when the public
sees where his decisions lead -
higher inflation,
higher interest rates, higher taxes,
sluggish growth,
and a jobless recovery.
- Karl Rove

Reducing the tax burden is necessary to produce economic growth.
- Bob Schaffer

Well, the security business has been growing.
I think security is one of those areas where it's to
some degree not linear but maybe exponential growth.
- Sanjay Kumar

I take great pride in having been able to overcome
the Asian financial crisis and seeking the opportunities
available to bring about an unprecedented growth in the economy.
- Zhu Rongji

Growing up in a violent home is a terrifying and traumatic
experience that can affect every aspect of a child's life,
growth, and development.
- Lucille Roybal-Allard

Genius is not a possession of the limited few,
but exists in some degree in everyone.
Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties,
genius will manifest itself.
- Robert Henri

You can never learn it all and I hope to continue my
growth as a person and a musician.
- Lita Ford

Traffic is only one of the side effects of growth.
- Roy Barnes

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to
leave home are stunted in their emotional,
psychological growth.
- Dirk Benedict

It is a fact that, if I single out Germany,
our rate of growth is too low and we have very high unemployment.
- Angela Merkel

Growth is an erratic forward movement:
two steps forward,
one step back.
Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
- Julia Cameron

The time was not yet ripe for the growth of mathematical science among us,
and any development that might have taken place in
that direction was rudely stopped by the civil war.
- Simon Newcomb

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.
- Walt Whitman

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle
of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of
forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.
- Herbert Read

Time and again we have learned that the best way to
achieve growth and create jobs is for hardworking people
to keep more of their own money in their own pockets.
- Chris Chocola

And one of our points of continuing conversation with
our trading partners is the urgency of their taking
steps to remove barriers to their improved growth performance.
- John W. Snow

We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state,
but we must desire its decrease, its weakening.
- Leo Tolstoy

One cannot have economic growth without security.
- John Bruton

There's something about Marxism that brings out warts;
the only kind of growth this economic system encourages.
- P. J. O'Rourke

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough,
is true security to be found.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds,
unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
- Mortimer Adler

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth,
but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
- Leo Tolstoy

Hiphop hasn't had stages of growth through its 30 years of existence.
- Slick Rick

I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful
and rich an expression of life as growth.
- Henry Miller

Promoting job creation and economic growth in the Hudson
Valley is one of my top priorities in Congress.
- Sue Kelly

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the
economy because it slows economic growth.
- Todd Tiahrt

We not only romanticize the future; we have also made
it into a growth industry,
a parlor game and a disaster movie all at the same time.
- Eugene Kennedy

Some of the analysts were saying, Now you're a cash cow,
there's no growth at all, pay it all out in dividends,
give me it all, you can't invest wisely.
- Jim Cantalupo

The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view.
Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view
kills anybody who has one.
- Brooks Atkinson

In order to achieve optimal economic growth,
Congress must adhere to sane spending guidelines while
promoting smart policies devoted to growing businesses and creating jobs.
- Michael Steele

I'm really looking forward to, not more of the same,
but a continual growth.
- Ben Harper

The book shows Clinton in the presidency as a profile in growth.
- Sidney Blumenthal

Life is growth.
If we stop growing, technically and spiritually,
we are as good as dead.
- Morihei Ueshiba

We need 4 hugs a day for survival.
We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance.
We need 12 hugs a day for growth.
- Virginia Satir

We are seeing significant growth in foreign investment in Germany.
- Gerhard Schroder

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul,
depend, as men have proved over and over again,
upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.
- George A. Smith

Where there is age there is evolution,
where there is life there is growth.
- Anjelica Huston

Exercise is one of the best ways in preventing the
rapid growth of obesity in America.
- Lee Haney

Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than
the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas.
- Mary Austin

All artists are people of growth.
It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
- Andrew Jack

It's not enough to have economic growth.
You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
- Tabare Vazquez

Regional exchange can be a source of growth and development,
and of enhancing good governance.
- Anna Lindh

Globalization presumes sustained economic growth.
Otherwise, the process loses its economic benefits and political support.
- Paul Samuelson

If I'm a commodity, it wouldn't be a wise idea to buy stock in me -
although,
in the long run, maybe I'm a slow growth investment.
- Tim Robbins

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
- James Cash Penney

The pro-growth policies of Congress have helped created
new jobs in the region and across the country.
- Tim Murphy