Quotes about Growth
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
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