Quotes About Growth

The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.

As the plant springs from, and could not be without, the seed, so every act of man springs from the hidden seeds of thought, and could not have appeared without them.

God, move that man on into the place where he comprehends what Christianity is.

I think that if there was one mistake that I took away, it would affect the man that I am today.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.

Study men following the law of their higher nature, the law of love, so that when you grow to manhood, you will have improved your heritage.

When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?

"You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted?"

Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth of other modes of knowledge.

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Gut it is will move us from the gutter .. . to the rebirth of real men.

I wouldn't want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it.

I've really actually grown with my girlfriends and the people that they've introduced me to and the way that I've been welcomed in by their families. I'm a very, very lucky man.

To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.

No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is.

a man can be given only what he can use; and he can use only that for which he has sacrificed something

I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

Marriage! Nothing else demands so much of a man

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.