Growing Quotes

• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

  Chili Davis

  Love, Happy Birthday, Happiness

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• Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

  James A. Baldwin

  Love, Relationship, Romantic

  "Nobody Knows My Name". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1961.

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  Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

  Jack Welch

  Leadership, Educational, Inspiration

  Jack Welch, Janet Lowe (2007). “Jack Welch Speaks: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Greatest Business Leader”, John Wiley & Sons

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• One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

  Washington Irving

  Age, Tools, Action

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• The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

  Max Lerner

  Life, Motivational, Broken Heart

  Max Lerner (1959). “The unfinished country: a book of American symbols”

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• Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

  Sophocles

  Growing Old

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• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Cute

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fitness, Cancer, Exercise

  "Sport at the New Frontier: The Soft American". Sports Illustrated Vol. 13, Issue 26, (pp. 14-17), December 26, 1960.

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• The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

  Thomas Sowell

  Mean, Technology, Opposites

  Thomas Sowell (1996). “Knowledge And Decisions”, p.10, Basic Books

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• 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!

  James M. Barrie

  Change, Growing Up, Mean

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• Growing older is mandatory, but growing up is optional.

  Heather Brewer

  Growing Up, Optional, Growing Older

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• There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.

  Donnie Yen

  Growing Up, School, Two

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• I had a lot of growing and a lot of denying of self to do. I am not easily won over, but when I am, I am completely won over.

  Willie Aames

  Growing Up, Self

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• But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

  Tim McGraw

  Sports, Children, Growing Up

  "Flicka (2006)". Interview with David Bruce, www.hollywoodjesus.com. May 28, 2005.

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• I get very caught up with things. I used to be dominated by domestic things. I had a lovely house in LA-and it became this growing, mad obsession

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Mad, House, Lovely

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• Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Growing Up, Chicago, Bigs

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• I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Growing Up, Havens

  "Amber Tamblyn and Blake Lively talk Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants". MovieWeb Interview, movieweb.com. May 25, 2005.

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• Growing up, my brother and I were begging for attention.

  Jeremy London

  Brother, Growing Up, Attention

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• As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it.

  Taryn Manning

  Sister, Brother, Growing Up

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• I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music

  Kelly Osbourne

  Growing Up, Age, Done

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• If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older

  Bob Geldof

  Boys, Wrecks, Singers

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• Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

  Annette Funicello

  Growing Up, Sometimes, Hard

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