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These quotes about growing up touch on many aspects of growing up and growing old - what it means to change, how to grow, how not to grow, and the balance between developing and aging.
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel
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It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
- John Wooden
Being a role model is the most powerful form of educating. Youngsters need good models more than they need critics. It's one of a parent's greatest responsibilities and opportunities.
- John Wooden
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.
- Swami Vivekananda
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand.
- Og Mandino
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
Too many people grow up.
That's the real trouble with the world,
too many people grow up.
They forget.
- Walt Disney
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
When you're a little kid you're a bit of everything; Scientist, Philosopher, Artist.
Sometimes it seems like growing up is giving these things up one at a time.
- The Wonder Years television show
Growing up is never easy. You hold on to things that were. You wonder what's to come.
- The Wonder Years television show
If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree,
I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!
-
J.M. Barrie [Peter Pan]
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anaïs Nin
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?
- Satchel Paige
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
- Henry Ford
Everyone is the age of their heart.
- Guatemalan Proverb
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
- Anonymous
Mighty oaks from little acorns grow.
- old English proverb
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw
It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
- Bill Watterson [Calvin and Hobbes]
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
-
George Bernard Shaw
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
- Anonymous
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Life is a sum of all your choices.
- Albert Camus
Change of any sort requires courage.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
- Carl Jung
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It is important to spend most of your time in the company of people who support you without meddling, who give you the space to grow, who applaud when you spread your wings in whatever way YOU want to fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life, and
smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True learning is not about facts, but about conscious appreciation of the experience of living.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Begin your life today, and again tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To the young child, all life is a great adventure - growing up should not mean growing dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The path to happiness is forgiveness of everyone and gratitude for everything.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
It is our choices ... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
- J. K. Rowling (Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets)
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I Can Do Anything - Starting Right Now. I have my dream, I have God, and I choose to move in the direction of my goal, even when I am afraid or unsure. Whenever I fall, I stand up, brush myself off, and keep moving toward my goal.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I gather strength from life's storms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I take the helm on my life voyage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future, I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I Walk Today's March With Courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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