Quotes about Growth
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.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Henry Ward Beecher
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them — the whole leaf and root tribe.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Repentance is another name for aspiration.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
— Henry Ward Beecher