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Quotes About Growth

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.
~ Charles Webster Leadbeater
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.
~ Dusty Baker
Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.
~ E. W. Howe
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
~ Edward Thorndike
The army teaches boys to think like men.
~ Elvis Presley
Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.
~ Frank Pittman
The key to growth is quite simple: creative men with money. The cause of stagnation is similarly clear: depriving creative individuals of financial power.
~ George Gilder
I will not reach my full potential as a man unless I find my partner.
~ Hill Harper
There are lessons to be learned from a stupid man.
~ Horace
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
~ Jean Cocteau
I feel like, as women and men and people on the planet, you just have to do the best with what life gives you.
~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.
~ Jim Rohn
Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.
~ Jim Rohn
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.
~ John Abbott
See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.
~ John Webster
Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
~ John Wooden
When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.
~ Joseph Addison
The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization
~ L. Frank Baum
Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.
~ Len Deighton
I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.
~ Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.
~ Napoleon Hill
A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision.
~ Natasha Trethewey