Quotes About Growth

When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!

I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

A man is worked on by what he works on.

There is a giant asleep within every man. When that giant awakes, miracles happen.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

Man is something to be surpassed.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

The school of life embodies a compulsory education that no man escapes.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

Nothing can be accomplished just by reading words. A sick man will never be cured of his illness through merely reading medical instructions!

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.

I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off.

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.