GROWTH QUOTES

Be(come) someone You can be Proud of!

– Tenaj DaCosta Wiseman

”Can you teach me to fly?”
Jonathan Seagull trembled to conquer the unknown.
“Of course, if you wish to learn.”

“I wish to learn to fly,” Jonathan said. “Tell me what to do.”

Chiang spoke slowly and watched the younger gull
ever so carefully.
“To fly as fast as thought, to anywhere that is,” he said,
“you must first begin by knowing that you have already arrived “…

– Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull)

The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

– John Ruskin

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap a character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

– Charles Reade

Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.

– Unknown

Growth itself contains the seed of happiness.

– Pearl S. Buck

Learning is not obtained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended with diligence.

– Abigail Adams

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

– John Wooden

Being ignorant is not so shameful as being unwilling to learn.

– Unknown

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only preparation to do something else that shall be different.

– Robert Louis Stevenson

Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow."

– The Talmud

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

– George Eliot