Quotes About Growth

Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.

Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

He that would be conformed to Christ's image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill sin in this way takes no steps toward his journey's end.

The Training which Makes Men Happiest in themselves ... also Makes Them Most Serviceable to Others

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful and the ennobling in man.

A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish.

First it is necessary to stand on your own two feet. But the minute a man finds himself in that position, the next thing he should do is reach out his arms.

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

New organs of perception come into being as a result of necessity. Therefore, O man, increase your necessity, so that you may increase your perception.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.

The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men.

Life is tough, man. No one is spared from obstacles and trials, but there is such a beautiful plan for each of us. Just gotta let it happen.