Quotes About Growth

Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.

Men as well as rivers grow crooked by following the path of least resistance.

Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.

There is a history in all men's lives.

The child shall become father to the man.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.

Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.

He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk.

A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others.

I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.

Every monster was a man first.

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

Learn everything you can - everything. And then use all that you have learned to grow up too be a wise and good man.

The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Men and women are but children of a larger growth.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.