Growing Up Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Growing Up

The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel

If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb

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Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Intellectual growth should commence at birth
and cease only at death.
- Albert Einstein

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Maturity is the ability to do a job
whether or not you are supervised,
to carry money without spending it,
and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
- Ann Landers

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
- e. e. cummings

You have to do your own growing
no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln

No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

As long as any adult thinks that he,
like the parents and teachers of old,
can become introspective,
invoking his own youth to understand
the youth before him,
he is lost.
- Margaret Mead

I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll

Youth, large, lusty, loving -
Youth, full of grace, force, fascination.
Do you know that Old Age may come after you
with equal grace, force, fascination?
- Walt Whitman

Everyone who got where he is,
had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans

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

Growing Quotes and Sayings

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that
they can grow separately without growing apart.
- Elisabeth Foley

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers,
but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings.
The curriculum is so much necessary raw material,
but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant
and for the soul of the child.
- Carl Jung

Up Quotes and Sayings

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott

The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Yes. As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot

An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

IF it is to be, it is up to me.
- Anonymous

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.
- Lee Iacocca

You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore

Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry

They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

Some people dream of success
while others wake up and work hard at it.
- Anonymous

Don't give up. There are too many nay-sayers out there
who will try to discourage you.
Don't listen to them.
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon

Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant

I won't give up 'til goats sing and walruses fly.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A man is a success if he gets up in
the morning and gets to bed at night,
and in between he does what he wants to do.
- Bob Dylan

The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling

For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stand up to your obstacles
and do something about them.
You will find that they haven't
half the strength you think they have.
- Norman Vincent Peale

If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu

Don't ever give up.
- Anonymous

The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono

Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu

Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Never give up.
- Anonymous

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing
was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.
- Margaret Mead

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up.
Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
- Michael Jordan

In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank

Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick ourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless

Eighty percent of success is showing up.
- Woody Allen

Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe

You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength
which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.
- Marcus Aurelius

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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