Quotes about Growth
The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
— George Bernard Shaw
God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milksops.
— Oswald Chambers
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
— Charles Dickens
A man is worked on by what he works on.
— Frederick Douglass
It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.
— Henry David Thoreau
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.
— Henry David Thoreau
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.
— Henry Ford
The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man without ambition is like a beautiful worm - it can creep, but it cannot fly.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive, getting proud as they get full.
— Henry Ward Beecher