A Quote by Samuel Johnson

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

Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
English - Writer
September 18, 1709 - December 13, 1784

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

William Pitt

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

William Pitt

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

Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

Anna Leonowens

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Hatred was a plant of slow growth.

Eleanor Dark

Murder is a plant of slow growth.

Mignon G. Eberhart

Love is not a plant of slow growth.

May Agnes Fleming

Knowledge is a plant of slow growth.

Thomas Cooper

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

George Washington

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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.

Henry Ward Beecher

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

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.