No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused dedicated disciplined.

Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius power and magic in it. Only engage and then the mind grows heated. Begin and then the work will be completed.

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

There are two ways of attaining an important end force and perseverance the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

I just hope it grows into where it was before because I want my son to see it. I want him to have a positive memory of it going forward so he can be proud of his daddy.

Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

Character... is a habit the daily choice of right over wrong it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

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

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows it flowers wilts and dies scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

Without hard work nothing grows but weeds.

I'm not sure anyone - and I could be wrong in this - grows up thinking I want to be a single mom.

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor as such differences become less it grows feeble and when they disappear it will vanish too.

A flower falls even though we love it and a weed grows even though we do not love it.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

The more that social democracy develops grows and becomes stronger the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies the leadership of their movement and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows so does the shore of our ignorance.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Happiness grows at our own firesides and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again from zero.

Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.