Quotes About Growth

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down.

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do.

A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.

From the first moment of life, men ought to begin learning to deserve to live.

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

The earth flourishes, or is overrun with noxious weeds and brambles, as we apply or withhold the cultivating hand. So fares it with the intellectual system of man.

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.

The better part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.

We will work harder in the future so set your eyes on us 5 men only.. Even when we become 30 and 40 as long as you can move, be with us.

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some species of tortoises not until 150 years.

Every man at three years old is half his height

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.