You don't learn to hold your o...

You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

~George Bernard Shaw~

We grow because we struggle, w...

We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.

~R. C. Allen~

Today I have grown taller from...

Today I have grown taller from walking with the trees.

~Karl Baker~

Thou mayest as well expect to ...

Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.

~R. Buckminster Fuller~

The perfecting of one's self i...

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

~Confucius~

Some people are molded by thei...

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

~Elizabeth Bowen~

Progress has not followed a st...

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe~

Enough shovels of earth -- a m...

Enough shovels of earth -- a mountain. Enough pails of water -- a river.

~Chinese Proverbs~

Climb mountains to see lowland...

Climb mountains to see lowlands.

~Chinese Proverbs~

A tree trunk the size of a man...

A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.

~Lao-Tzu~