Quotes About Growth

The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

It is to the man who is trying to live, to the man who is obedient to the word of the Master, that the word of the Master unfolds itself.

No one ever gets too big to make mistakes. The secret is that the big man is greater than his mistakes, because he rises right out of them and passes beyond them.

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand.

men change less than is imagined; their after life is only a kaleidescope combination of the elements of their character at the period of adolescence.

A man is more than one being in his life. If the last persists, why not the first? If there be a hereafter for his age, why not for his youth?

What is the use of being a little boy if you are growing up to be a man.

Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain

Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

We all make mistakes, probably the man most often.

I'll always remain friends with men I've been in love with. Each one gave me so much, in so many ways.

I'm at a point in my life where I have three kids. I'm a father, and you start to take stock and measure yourself as a man and see where there's room for growth.

In the lives of children, pumpkins turn into coaches, mice and rats turn into men. When we grow up, we realize it is far more common for men to turn into rats.

I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it.

A man in his life may have many teachers, some most unexpected. The question lies with the man himself: Will he learn from them?

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.