"The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it generation after generation."

Growth, Youth, Ambition, Risk, Success

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"The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it generation after generation."

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"Grow your talents and skills through a consistent practice and progressive learning. Learn to relearn and unlearn. Raise the bar for yourself always."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

Growth, Learning, Talent, Success

"Polish you potentials so as to shine your credentials."

Ikechukwu Joseph, Nigerian Motivational Speaker

Growth, Self-Improvement, Potential, Skill, Recognition

"Good could become the enemy of the best. That best is possession."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility."

E. F. Schumacher, English Economist

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"Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal."

Sumner Redstone, American Businessman

Growth, Day, Dying, Newspapers

"When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next year."

Richie Norton, American Author

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"Similar to a how a flower grows incrementally, people also blossom in stages. As we age, we expand our knowledge of how the world works and how other people respond to our deeds. We also expand our language skills in order to communicate both our thoughts and feelings."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Growth, Knowledge, Aging, Language

"As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do."

Sheryl Sandberg, American Author

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"Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance."

Philosophy

"Love alone could waken love."

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"Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it."

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"And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was."

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"Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels."

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"To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth."

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"Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation."

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"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."

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"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday."

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"Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought."

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