All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

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.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Our pleasures and our discontents,
Are rounds by which we may ascend.

Our pleasures and our discontents,
Are rounds by which we may ascend.

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.

He who moves not forward, goes backward

He who moves not forward, goes backward

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.