<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Growth - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18410]]></link><description><![CDATA[All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18411]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-- growth among those who don't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Create the kind of climate in your organization where personal growth is expected, recognized and rewarded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18413]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow because we struggle, we learn and overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gem cannot be polished without friction, not a man perfected without trials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18416]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something (an affliction) happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18419]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.   Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.'  And since, methinks, I would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18401]]></link><description><![CDATA['Ay,' quoth my uncle Gloucester, 'Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.'  And since, methinks, I would not grow so fast,   Because sweet flow'rs are slow and weeds make haste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:  The prince my brother hath outgrown me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18402]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth:  The prince my brother hath outgrown me far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones,  That men may rise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I held it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones,  That men may rise on stepping stones   Or their dead selves to higher things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great world's altar stairs That slope through darkness up to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18405]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot hammer a girl into anything. She grows as a flower does, she will wither without sun; she will decay in her sheath as a narcissus will if you do not give her air enough; she might fall and defile her head in dust if you leave her without help at some moments in her life; but you cannot fetter her; she must take her own fair form and way if she take any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is a gift of the universe -- even joy, anger, jealously, frustration, or separateness. Everything is perfect either for our growth or our enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing, as bears leisurely lick their clubs into shape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! worse every day! this colony grows backward like the tail of a calf. [Lat., Heu quotidie pejus! haec colonia retroversus crescit tanquam coda vituli.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. [Lat., Fungino genere est; capite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18394]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is of the race of the mushroom; he covers himself altogether with his head. [Lat., Fungino genere est; capite se totum tegit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Besides that, when elsewhere the harvest of wheat is most abundant, there it comes up less by one-fourth than what you have sowed. There, methinks, it were a proper place for men to sow their wild oats, where they would not spring up. [Lat., Post id, frumenti quum alibi messis maxima'st  Tribus tantis illi minus reddit, quam obseveris.   Heu! istic oportet obseri mores malos,    Si in obserendo possint interfieri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18397]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18380]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18381]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?  No! grown, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18382]]></link><description><![CDATA[What? Was man made a wheel-work to wind up, And be discharged, and straight wound up anew?  No! grown, his growth lasts; taught, he ne'er forgets;   May learn a thousand things, not twice the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne  Lead gradual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treading beneath their feet all visible things, As steps that upwards to their Father's throne  Lead gradual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lofty oak from a small acorn grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lofty oak from a small acorn grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man seems the only growth that dwindles here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be;  Or standing long an oak, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18386]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be;  Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,   To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere:    A lily of a day     Is fairer far in May,      Although it falls and die that night--       It was the plant and flower of Light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lover of Jesus and of the truth . . . can lift himself above himself in spirit. [Lat., Amator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18387]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lover of Jesus and of the truth . . . can lift himself above himself in spirit. [Lat., Amator Jesu et veritatis . . . potest se . . . elevare supra seipsum in spiritu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain,  If, rising on its wrecks, at last   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain,  If, rising on its wrecks, at last   To something nobler we attain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18390]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so all growth that is not towards God Is growing to decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10259]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who moves not forward, goes backward]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;  Keep clean, be as fruit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb;  Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch,   Till the white-wing'd reapers come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8861</guid></item></channel></rss>