Growth happens slowly (quotes)

Physical growth is a function of time. No two-year-old child has ever been six feet tall. John Bevere
Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. Carol Kent
The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day. John F. Kennedy
I think the growth of the brain is a slow process. But you do change and the more you accept change and embrace change, the better. Diane Keaton
I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don’t know it’s happening. Mariel Hemingway
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. Stephen Covey
Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned. John Powell
Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years. Alexander Graham Bell
Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. William George Jordan
God works according to the law of gradual growth, so don’t be discouraged if your progress seems slow. Joyce Meyer
My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it’s hard to make a story out of it. Juliana Hatfield

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. Moliere
Everything that is great in life is the product of slow growth; the newer, and greater, and higher, and nobler the work, the slower is its growth, the surer is its lasting success. Mushrooms attain their full power in a night; oaks require decades. A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries. William George Jordan
Although its growth may seem to have been slow, it is to be remembered that it is not a shrub, or plant, to shoot up in the summer and wither in the frosts. Clara Barton

One of the clever adaptive qualities of bamboo is that it grows its leaves in the summer and its roots in the winter. It takes advantage of each season, and while it appears dormant, it is not. The roots grown in winter prepare for rapid branch and leaf development in summer. We, too, go through seasons, all of which afford us opportunities for different kinds of growth. In a prosperous economic season, there is a lot of building and external expansion. When an economic winter comes, with little activity in the outer world, that is the time for inner deepening. Alan Cohen
The seed of a bamboo tree is planted, fertilized and watered. Nothing happens for the first year. There´s no sign of growth. Not even a hint. The same thing happens – or doesn´t happen – the second year. And then the third year. The tree is carefully watered and fertilized each year, but nothing shows. No growth. No anything. For eight years it can continue. Eight years! Then – after the eight years of fertilizing and watering have passed, with nothing to show for it – the bamboo tree suddenly sprouts and grows thirty feet in three months! Zig Ziglar

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. We do not wish to see children precocious, making great strides in their early years like sprouts, producing a soft and perishable timber, but better if they expand slowly at first, as if contending with difficulties, and so are solidified and perfected. Such trees continue to expand with nearly equal rapidity to extreme old age. Henry David Thoreau
The child’s personality is a product of slow gradual growth. His nervous system matures by stages and natural sequences. He sits before he stands; he babbles before he talks; he fabricates before he tells the truth; he draws a circle before he draws a square; he is selfish before he is altruistic; he is dependent on others before he achieves dependence on self. All of his abilities, including his morals, are subject to laws of growth. The task of child care is not to force him into a predetermined pattern but to guide his growth. Arnold Gesell
All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay. Tacitus

Love, slow and gradual in its growth, is too much like friendship ever to be a violent passion. Jean de la Bruyere

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation. George Washington
Friendship is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. Jean de la Bruyere

I think that one’s art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. Emily Carr
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. George Henry Lewes

We must remember that much spiritual growth does not occur suddenly but rather through time and experience. Brent L. Top
The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one’s self. Aldous Huxley

You cannot force growth of human life and civilization, any more than you can force these slow-growing trees. That is the economy of Almighty God, that all good growth is slow growth. William Jay Gaynor

Knowledge is a plant of slow growth. Thomas Cooper
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. William Pitt
If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly. Benjamin Disraeli

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them. Alexander Graham Bell