Quotes About Growth

Men don't change. They just learn to disguise the lack of change.

The best and most important part of every man's education is that which he gives himself.

Till it has loved, no man or woman can become itself.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

I build only living stones--men.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

The farther a man knows himself to be free from perfection, the nearer he is to it.

The best years of a man's life are after he is forty. A man at forty has ceased to hunt the moon.

At sixty a man has passed most of the reefs and whirlpools....That man has awakened to a new youth....Ergo, he is young.

The man who never reads lives only one.

My errors will point to thinking men the various roads, and will teach them the great art of treading on the brink of the precipice without falling into it.

A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.

The difference between men and boys is the price of their toys.

The greatest good [a man] can do is to cultivate himself in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.

Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself.

I'm a better person now, and not only that - I'm a better man

From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

The world exists for the education of each man.

Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'