Quotes About Growth

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

Before 'Mad Men,' I definitely had very dry spells and I know what those feel like, and I don't think that ever leaves you as an actor.

Marriage is god's way to ensure there are few great men

The human spirit may be likened to the bounty of the sun shining on a mirror. The body of man, ... grows and develops through the animal spirit.

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

Men, like animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

What is the use for a man to have at his disposal a large field of action, if within himself he remains confine to the narrow limits of his individuality.

What is of man uses manipulation to conform. What is of #God uses implantation to transform.

...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

There will be certain things in a man that have to be won, not forced; inspired, not compelled.

We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place.

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Marriage makes a man more vulnerable by doubling the expanse of sail exposed to the tempests of social life.

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky.

Farmers are patient men. They got to be. Got to see those seeds come up week by week, fraction by fraction, and sweat it out for some days not knowing yet is it weeds or vegetables.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.