Quotes About Growth

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.

I want the flower and fruit of a man; that some fragrance be wafted over from him to me, and some ripeness flavor our intercourse.

Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.

If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know any more, or do any more or be any more, he is in a state in which he ought to be changed into a mummy.

Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.

Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass, it does no good; but, if it is only spread out evenly on the land, everything will grow.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the first steps which lead to it; but, taking these steps, every man can acquire it.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

I had grown a thin mustache, I was a full-grown man, and yet I was completely helpless and without a goal in life.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

Forget the brother and resume the man.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.

Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me. It restored my faith when I was a boy, tended me as a teenager, and when I was a young man the bar embraced me.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.