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Grow Quotes by Eric Hoffer
- People unfit for freedom - who cannot do much with it - are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a…
- People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.
- Both the revolutionary and the creative individual are perpetual juveniles. The revolutionary does not grow up because he cannot grow, while the creative individual cannot…
- A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and…
- Conservatism is sometimes a symptom of sterility. Those who have nothing in them that can grow and develop must cling to what they have in…
- Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor…
- The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.
- To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes -- we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers…
More Grow Quotes
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you. — Rajneesh
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and… — William Shakespeare
- We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves,… — Paul Auster
- What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to… — Russell Baker