Quotes About Growth

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

Single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints.

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

Times don't change. Men do.

The stubborn stops when finding a mistake, the wise man will not stop until finding the true.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

Young man, the games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

I was not always a man of woe.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.