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    "Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect
    himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire,
    but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the
    hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride
    further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and
    monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of
    special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly
    celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his
    Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous
    metamorphosis.

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If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.

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But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art
grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; read more

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art
grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God
which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

by Bible Found in: Growth Quotes,
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Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most
abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than read more

Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most
abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have
sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow
their wild oats, where they would not spring up.
[Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st
Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris.
Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos,
Si in obserendo possint interfieri.]

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

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

by William Shakespeare Found in: Growth Quotes,
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and read more

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

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Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less read more

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

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He who moves not forward, goes backward

He who moves not forward, goes backward

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And so all growth that is not towards God
Is growing to decay.

And so all growth that is not towards God
Is growing to decay.

by George Macdonald Found in: Growth Quotes,
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