No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.
It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.
There are many people who consider love a dream, but they usually grow to think of marriage as the cold breakfast.
We are out of the ditch, we're standing, we're walking, but we're not running. I want to grow the economy.
As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
I love helping entrepreneurs. It's something I really have fun doing. It's like planting a little seed and watching it grow. Any time I can help somebody, that's a good thing. It's fun. If I get to make some money at it, it's even better.
If you find yourself perplexed, or perhaps in a quandary, remember that human growth is perpendicular. We grow up and we grow forward, we just have to keep on growing steadily in both ways.
Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.
. . . I suddenly realized what small towns are. They are places where you grow up with the peculiar-you live next door to the strange and the unlikely for so long that everything and everyone become commonplace.
If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.
I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.
Every individual strives to grow and exclude, to the extremities of the universe, and to impose the law of its being on every other creature.
Don't ask me how to burn down a building. Ask me how to grow watermelons or how to explain nature to a child. That is what I want to grow old doing. Please afford me this.
By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.
Dangers by being despised grow great.
Parents aren’t the people you come from. They’re the people you want to be, when you grow up.
What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises.
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
It saddens me to think that there are children in America who are hungry every day of their lives. No one can live - and grow - withoiut such a fundamental necessity as food. If we Americans reach out to our own communities, we could end this crisis.
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.