Outgrowing Quotes:

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

- Theodore Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Job Satisfaction, Motivational Job

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

- Albert Ellis

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Life's Too Short, Life Is Simple

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Book, Years, Scripture, Outgrowing

The sky has never been the limit. We are our own limits. It's then about breaking our personal limits and outgrowing ourselves to live our best lives. All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.

- Walt Disney

topic: Adversity, Sky, Limits, Outgrowing, Having Strength

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.

- Ursula K. Le Guin

source: Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.44, Ultramarine Publishing

topic: Children, Growing Up, Believe, Outgrowing

Outgrowing things we love is never a pleasant process.

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

source: Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature”, p.244, e-artnow

topic: Love Is, Nostalgia, Process, Outgrowing

For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

topic: Growing Up, Dust, Ashes, Outgrowing, Family Growing Up

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

- Norman Cousins

topic: Kindness, Work, Mean, Outgrowing

We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom can take the world out of the man. As long as the human being is obsessed by worldliness, he will suffer from the Karmic consequences of false allegiances. When however, worldliness is transmuted into Spiritual Integrity he is free, even though he still dwells physically among worldly things.

- Manly Hall

source: Manly Palmer Hall (1949). “Horizon”

topic: Spiritual, Integrity, Men, Spiritual Integrity, Outgrowing

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

- Carl Jung

topic: Life, Acceptance, Important, Outgrowing, Faded

There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer'.

- George Saunders

source: "George Saunders and Andy Ward". Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 07, 2013.

topic: Nice, Writing, Feelings, Outgrowing

You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it.  In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

- Jacque Fresco

topic: Good Life, Needs, False Hope, Outgrowing, Anti Religion

Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.

- Henry George

topic: Children, Clothes, Progress, Outgrowing, Progressive Society

I believe we are going to have to prepare ourselves for the difficult and patient task of outgrowing rigid and intransigent nationalism, and work slowly towards a world federation of peaceful nations. How will this be possible? Don't ask me. I don't know. But unless we develop a moral, spiritual, and political wisdom that is proportionate to our technological skill, our skill may end us.

- Thomas Merton

source: Thomas Merton (1995). “Witness to Freedom: The Letters of Thomas Merton in Times of Crisis”, p.102, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

topic: Spiritual, Wisdom, Peace, Outgrowing, Political Wisdom

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

- Thornton Wilder

source: Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

topic: Funny, Humor, Order, Outgrowing, Nettles

Many of them [people who escaped religion] recounted both the terror and the relief they felt after leaving religion behind. Terror at realizing there was no longer an imaginary friend; relief that no one was looking over their shoulder any more. Several described the experience as similar to that of a child learning to go to sleep without a favorite teddy bear. Others described it as simply growing up or outgrowing the need for the imaginary friends of childhood.

- Darrel Ray

topic: Children, Growing Up, Sleep, Imaginary Friend, Outgrowing

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

topic: Names, Nuisance, Firsts, Outgrowing

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Love, Relationship, Baby, Inspirational Baby, Inspirational Parenting

Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles through a curtain of jasmine to bring a bowl of tortilla soup, steaming with cilantro and lime. Cats stalk lizards among the clay pots around the fountain, doves settle into the flowering vines and coo their prayers, thankful for the existence of lizards. The potted plants silently exhale, outgrowing their clay pots. Like Mexico's children they stand pinched and patient in last year's too-small shoes.

- Barbara Kingsolver

topic: Dog, Prayer, Children, Tortillas, Outgrowing