Quotes About Growth

It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

The function of Nayee-Talim is not to teach an occupation, but through it to develop the whole man.

Any man can make a mistake; only a fool keeps making the same one.

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.

The boy that you loved is the man that you fear.

The individual man is transitory, but the pulse of life and of growth goes on after he is gone, buried under a wreath of magnolia leaves.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.

Every green herb, from the lotus to the darnel, is rich with delicate aids to help incurious man.

Natural Man, in our current version, is a disgruntled adolescent.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

If a man has a weak arm, give him a heavy hammer to exceed himself!

Every man is a door; when the door is closed, just search for the key gently! Remember that every door has a key!

All men leave the harbour of youth, but only few reach the very far island of wisdom!

The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans!

Countries keep on building higher and higher buildings, instead of building higher and higher men!

Obstacles! Man needs obstacles to get matured!

Sometimes man needs great failures today to accomplish great successes tomorrow!

I feel like you've got to go through some things in order to get somewhere. He [GOD] took me through nearly seven years of hell, but allowed me to grow and mature into a man and true professional.

Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.