"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."

"Teach me, by this stupendous scaffolding, Creation's golden steps, to climb to Thee."

"Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind; how the observation of last year seems childish, superficial; how this year — even this week — even with this new phrase — it seems to us that we have grown to a new maturity. It may be a fallacious persuasion, but at least it is stimulating, and so long as it persists, one does not stagnate."

"We fight not for ourselves but for growth, growth that goes on for ever. To-morrow, whether we live or die, growth will conquer through us. That is the law of the spirit for evermore. To grow according to the will of God! To grow out of these cracks and crannies, out of these shadows and darknesses, into greatness and the light! Greater," he said, speaking with slow deliberation, "greater, my Brothers! And then-still greater. To grow and again-to grow. To grow at last into the fellowship and understanding of God. Growing. . . . Till the earth is no more than a footstool. … Till the spirit shall have driven fear into nothingness, and spread. … " He swung his arms heavenward — "There!""

"The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God."

"I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things."

"O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far."

""Ay," quoth my uncle Gloucester, "Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace:" And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast, Because sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste."

"Gardener, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow."

"Later in the afternoon I took a walk to the grocery store, wondering what might cause a woman to grow to such proportions. I think it must be terribly lonely stand seventy-five feet tall. You'dhave no irvacy and every bowel movement would evacuate entire cities. What would you eat? A roast chicken would be the size of a peanut. You might put away five dozen but leave with the feeling you were only snacking."

"'Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd."

"Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength."

"Growth is the only evidence of life."

"Whenever we see a growing entity, whether it be a population, a corporation, a bank account, a rumor, an epidemic, or sales of a new product, we look for the reinforcing loops that are driving it and for the balancing loops that ultimately will constrain it. We know those balancing loops are there, even if they are not yet dominating the system's behavior, because no real physical system can grow forever. [...] An economy can be constrained by physical capital or monetary capital or labor or markets or management or resources or pollution."

"You will either step forward into growth, or you will step back into safety."

"Having a sincere desire to want growth does not mean at that point you are committing yourself to growth."

"People find it easy to justify their frustration in the struggle to manipulate others, but find it hard to justify the struggle for their own growth."

"Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found."

"Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed."

"Growth is just awareness of more and more."

"Man seems the only growth that dwindles here."

"What you dream, you can grow."

"Self growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no higher investment."

"The growth of one blesses all. I am committed to grow in love. All that I touch, I leave in love. I move through this world consciously and creatively."

"Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself."

"A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully."

"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist."

"You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them."

"Yes! There will be growth in the spring!"

"In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again."

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

"Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness."

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

"It is, in a great measure, by raising up and endowing great minds that God secures the advance of human affairs, and the accomplishment of His own plans on earth."

"A great man, I take it, is a man so inspired and permeated with the ideas of God and the Christly spirit as to be too magnanimous for vengeance, and too unselfish to seek his own ends."

"He who does the most good is the greatest man. Power, authority, dignity; honors, wealth, and station,— these are so far valuable as they put it into the hands of men to be more exemplary and more useful than they could be in an obscure and private life. But then these are means conducting to an end, and that end is goodness."

"A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness."

"True greatness does not consist so much in doing extraordinary things, as in conducting ordinary affairs with a noble demeanor and from a right motive. It is necessary and most profitable to remember the advice to Titus, "Showing all good fidelity in all things.""

"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the using of strength."

"The greatest man is he who chooses the right with the most invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heavest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering."

"Great let me call him, for he conquered me."

"O, happy they that never saw the court, Nor ever knew great men but by report!"

"He fought a thousand glorious wars, And more than half the world was his, And somewhere, now, in yonder stars, Can tell, mayhap, what greatness is."

"The world knows nothing of its greatest men."

"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."

"Not that the heavens the little can make great, But many a man has lived an age too late."

"Si vir es, suspice, etiam si decidunt, magna conantes."

"Es ist der Fluch der Hohen, dass die Niedern Sich ihres offnen Ohrs bemächtigen."

"Les grands ne sont grands que parceque nous sommes à genoux: relevons nous."

"Lives obscurely great."