Quotes about Growth
The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.
— St. Jerome
A man has more character in his face at forty than at twenty - he has suffered longer.
— Mae West
I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given.
— Muhammad Ali
Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I put away childish things, along with the desire to be very grown up.
— CS Lewis
Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
— Paul Tillich
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.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
— John Milton
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.
— John Owen
Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault.
— Thomas a Kempis
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.
— Charles Spurgeon