Quotes about Growth
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
— William Faulkner
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
— William Faulkner
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
— William Hazlitt
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
— William Hazlitt
We grow tired of everything but turning others into ridicule, and congratulating ourselves on their defects.
— William Hazlitt
That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.
— William Hazlitt
Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas
— William James
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.
— William James
Our minds thus grow in spots and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.
— William James
If you can change your mind, you can change your life.
— William James
Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
— William James
Live as if you already are what you wish to become.
— William Jones