Quotes about Growth
Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
A man does not recover from such jolts-- he becomes a different person and, eventually, the new person finds new things to care about.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
My life... my life has got to be like this. It's got to keep going up.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grown in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees - just as things grow in fast movies - I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer
— F Scott Fitzgerald
A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.
— Drew Houston