Quotes About Growth

Give a man secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden; give him nine years' lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.

Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.

Many a man's vices have at first been nothing worse than good qualities run wild.

All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago.

You kids were all in college, and I suddenly saw that I was stuck alone with a man who, all those years later, was still wanting me to be someone I wasn't.

I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.

Slowly you become your own man.

Branch Rickey made me a better man.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.

A man does not truly understand his limitations until he has tested them.

Woe to the lazy man! Laziness is an evil disease which you must not let seize you in childhood, for when you grow up it cannot be cured. Chapter 25

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

There is life in the ground; it goes into the seeds and also when it is stirred up goes into the man who stirs it.

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

I was the world's smallest man, covered in freckles with a squeaky, scratchy voice. And I still am, but I've learned to love myself.

Deadline' is the story of a young man forced to discover who he is, and what's important in life, during the short span of his senior year in high school.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

The wise man understands his weakness and seeks to find a lesson from it. The fool lets it control and destroy him.

It is the individual man in his individual freedom who can mature with his warm spirit the unripe world.

Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up.

No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He's broken because he doesn't keep going after those things happen.

Self confidence plays an important part in every aspect of man's life.

For there is no business of life, no avocation whatever, which will not permit a man, who has an inclination, to give a little time every day to the studies of his youth.