Quotes About Growth

Difficulty attracts the characterful man, for it is by grasping it that he fulfils himself.

Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

I find older men more attractive than boys. I need a man who can teach me a thing or two.

The Marine Corps ... took a boy and made him a man.

MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

Distinctly different as a child, as an adolescent, in his prime and in his old age, man considers himself as one, not because he acts, but because he knows.

I've been married 34 years. I have not been a perfect man. I have made mistakes in my life.

An ignorant man ages like an ox. His flesh may increase, but not his understanding.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Kill the boy, Jon Snow. Winter is almost upon us. Kill the boy and let the man be born.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we dont really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, were finally starting to learn.

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

Some people are boys longer than others.

Adversity gives you the opportunity to exhibit godly character.

Young men and women come of age when they look at their parents and see them not only as their parents but as people. They gain a lot of compassion, and it's easier to accept their flaws.

Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.

I believe there is a theory that men and women emerge finer and stronger after suffering, an that to advance in this or any world we must endure ordeal by fire." (From Rebecca)