Quotes About Growth

The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.

If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential.

I was between A man and a boy, A hobble-de-hoy, A fat, little, punchy concern of sixteen.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

Young men can be impetuous, young men can be rush, young men can be fools, but the Car'a'carn cannot let himself be a young man.

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

No man ever became wise by chance.

When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his face, and the inscription, "I am still learning."

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes, But no meat for men is in thee.

Books are not men and yet they are alive.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

There are no weeds, and no worthless men. There are only bad farmers.

Man is capable of changing the world for the better if possible, and of changing himself for the better if necessary.

The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepen his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.