Quotes About Growth

When a man becomes cultivated, he develops a new respect for who he is. This causes him to be ashamed of his past identification of himself and others according to things, i.e. property.

Man sheds grief as his skin sheds rain.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.

Every man believes that he has greater possibilities.

We expect a great man to be a good reader.

The age of puberty is a crisis in the age of man worth studying. It is the passage from the unconscious to the conscious; from thesleep of passions to their rage.

Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof?

College men from L.S.U., went in dumb, come out dumb, too.

I was forced to grow up quicker than most. I was forced to be a young man at a young age.

We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.

You act at being a man, and before you know it, you are one.

Men are but men, and the greatest men are they who soonest learn the simpler things.

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

The love of a girl can make a man stay on when he should go,Just tryin' to build a peaceful life where love is free to grow.

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.

If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.

We must leave these beginnings, beings, believings- man, what are you growing?