A Quote by George Washington

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

George Washington

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George Washington
American - President
February 22, 1732 - December 14, 1799

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 plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

George Washington

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

Charlotte Bronte

Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

Anna Leonowens

Hatred was a plant of slow growth.

Eleanor Dark

Love is not a plant of slow growth.

May Agnes Fleming

Murder is a plant of slow growth.

Mignon G. Eberhart

Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

Thomas Cooper

Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom

Samuel Johnson

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged heart.

William Pitt

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

William Pitt

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

Mahatma Gandhi

I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

Benjamin Disraeli

If confidence is a plant of slow growth, credit is one which matures much more slowly.

Benjamin Disraeli

All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first, and slowest, is the invisible growth by the root; the second and much accelerated is the visible growth by the stem; but when root and stem have gathered their forces, there comes the third period, in which the plant quickly flashes into blossom and rushes into fruit.