Quotes About Growth

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

Life is simply time given to man to learn how to live.

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.

Man and boy, I have lived ever since I can remember.

I long for the day when advertising will become a business for a grown man.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

A man of talent is not born to be left to himself, but to devote himself to art and good masters who will make something of him.

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins.

Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

I knew a man who carried his education in his vest pocket because there was more room there than in his head.

The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.

A man is born gentle and weak. At death he is hard and stiff.

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.

Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

The greatest thing a man can do for himself is to marry someone who is infinitely better than he is. And that's exactly what I did.

An angry man can only get so far until he reconciles the way he thinks.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man.

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true.

The creation of new capital always... releases... labor. Its actual effect [though] is not to make jobs scarce, but to free men's labor for other jobs.