Quotes About Growth

The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome.

You know I'm just getting bigger, man. It's like, my shoulders don't fit in some things.

Men are amazing. I love the way they are. They're consistently little boys, and they need to be nurtured and loved. But at the same time, they need to feel like men.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

It is not so important whether a young man has been through the experience of a mission as it is whether the mission experience has been through him.

Someone once said, 'Adversity introduces a man to himself.' For some reason, that's scary, but most people discover that adversity does make them stronger.

I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

Every day I'm reassessing what I've been taught against what I see, and the man I need to be if I'm going to call myself a leader of anybody.

If I had to pick one form of acting, it would be live theater. That's where I started; that's where I became a man, I think I'm still finishing up that job.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

A man is at his strongest when he is willing to accept his vulnerability

The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

There is no man suddenly either excellently good or extremely evil, but grows either as he holds himself up in virtue or lets himself slide to viciousness.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

We have to keep letting go, and slowly and surely the great full life of God will invade us in every part, and men will take knowledge of us that we have been with Jesus.

Every man is made to reach out beyond his grasp.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.