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Growing Up Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Growing Up
Choose to be as a young child -
fully awake, eager for the next experience.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
- Yiddish proverb
The trick is growing up without growing old.
- Casey Stengel 
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
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
I can't go back to yesterday -
because I was a different person then.
- Lewis Carroll
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
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
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
The best way to cheer yourself
is to try to cheer someone else up.
- Mark Twain
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb
When people get caught up with that which is right
and they are willing to sacrifice for it,
there is no stopping point short of victory.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If it's Right, stand up for it - together.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Yes. As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
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
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Sacrifice everything, and give up nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The sun WILL come up tomorrow.
- Anonymous
It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous
The only one who can make you give up is yourself.
- Sidney Sheldon
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
As the evening beckons with the promise of tomorrow ...
may your gratitude rise up and with strength answer, "yes."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Never give up on the most important goals in your life.
Never give up on your life purpose.
Never give up on your core values.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn vos Savant
Don't ever 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
Circumstances don't defeat you -
you defeat yourself when you give up.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dream up the world you want to live in. Dream out loud.
- Bono
Letting go doesn't mean giving up...
it means moving on.
- Anonymous
People are just as happy
as they make up their minds to be.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
They who can give up essential liberty
to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
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
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed
is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas A. Edison
The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive,
but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
- John Wayne
The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.
- Alice Walker
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
- Lao Tzu
Never give up, for that
is just the place and time
that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
Never give up.
- Anonymous
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
Your point of view sets you up well in advance
for how you view the events as they unfold.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What power there is in our service when our actions
line up with our mission, skills and joy.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
For every minute you remain angry,
you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't let praise or criticism get to you.
It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
