Quotes About Growth

The learned man aims for more. But the wise man decreases. And then decreases again.

There are three stages to a man's life. 1. He laughs at Clark Griswold. 2. He sympathizes deeply with Clark Griswold. 3. He laughs at Clark Griswold.

The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant.

My reward is just to be a better man. You're so close to losing a loved one ... the ultimate goal is to be a better daddy, a better son, a better teammate.

My children have made me a better man, which is - in the end, that's probably more important than two more comedy specials or being in better shape.

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man.

Man must strive, and striving he must err.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.

The important thing is not to know more than all men, but to know more at each moment than any particular man.

Every change in human attitude must come through internal understanding and acceptance. Man is the only known creature who can reshape and remould himself by altering his attitude.

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist.

Let's think about how we can bring economic development, let's see if people could learn a little more of the rule of law, rather than the rule of man, which is kind of what you see in China.

We may outgrow the things of children, without acquiring sense and relish for those which become a man.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

To watch the corn grow, and the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over ploughshare or spade; to read, to think, to love, to hope, to pray, — these are the things that make men happy.

A kind of second childhood falls on so many men. They trade their violence for the promise of a small increase of life span. In effect, the head of the house becomes the youngest child.

I am a little man and this is a little town, but there must be a spark in little men that can burst into flame.

Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.