Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. (Quote by - Arthur Schopenhauer)

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. (Quote by - Calvin Coolidge)

He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. (Quote by - Titus Maccius Plautus)

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. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. (Quote by - Anais Nin)

Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. (Quote by - Rosilind Russell)

The recommended daily requirement for hugs is: four per day for survival, eight per day for maintenance, and twelve per day for growth. (Quote by - Virginia Satir)

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

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

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die. (Quote by - Plato)

Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. (Quote by - C.S. Lewis)

Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come. (Quote by - Henry Vaughan)

Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)

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

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

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system. (Quote by - Al Gore)

And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay. (Quote by - George MacDonald)

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)

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

The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)

What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew? No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets; May learn a thousand things, not twice the same. (Quote by - Robert Browning)

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)