growth quotes

• Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. (Benjamin Franklin) [growth/civilization & progress/words]
• Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States. (Ronald Reagan) [growth]
• There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder. (Ronald Reagan) [growth/human/intelligence/imagination]
• The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group. (Franklin Roosevelt) [democracy/people/growth/power]
• Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence. (Hannah Arendt) [growth/day]
• We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate. (Jean Baudrillard) [state/growth/state/society]
• Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. (Willa Cather) [growth/more/artist/artist]
• The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [civilization & progress/growth]
• Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain. (John Dryden) [men/growth/change]
• The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice. (George Eliot) [growth/human/choice]
• Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [cities/growth/people]
• Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth. (Mahatma Gandhi) [growth]
• It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of Morality. (Emma Goldman) [superstition/growth/people/superstition]
• Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle... (Napoleon Hill) [growth]
• Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization. (Victor Hugo) [more/light/growth/darkness]
• Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. (John F. Kennedy) [growth]
• Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance. (John F. Kennedy) [growth/civilization & progress/people/benefits]
• The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage. (Rollo May) [growth/basis/instinct/nature]
• I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. (Henry Miller) [being/life/growth]
• All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. (Henry Miller) [growth/benefit/experience]
• The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [growth/wisdom]
• Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart. (William Pitt) [confidence/growth]
• What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows -- it must grow; nothing can prevent it. (Mark Twain) [right/growth/atom]
• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. (George Washington) [give/confidence/growth]
• True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. (George Washington) [growth]
• Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. (George Washington) [take/growth]
• Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of every dialect, race, and range of time, and is both the free and compacted composition of all. (Walt Whitman) [english/language/growth/time]
• Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. (Oscar Wilde) [form/government/growth/art]
• I did not have implants, I just had a growth spurt. (Britney Spears) [growth]
• Last Wednesday staff discovered a couple of areas of mould growth on some classroom walls. They were less than a square foot in surface area, totally different from the last time. There was something like three or four (areas) of surface mould growth, not the kind of stuff before, when it was behind the walls and growing for a long time. This is a different story. (Bruce Campbell) [growth/walls/time/growth]
• I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to usher the program through its early stages of growth. For 10 years I have approached my responsibilities with pride and with passion. It has been a tremendous experience to work with our amazing student-athletes. (Dennis Miller) [growth/pride/pleasure/experience]

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