Quotes about Growth
Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain.
— GK Chesterton
The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
— Mahatma Gandhi
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
— Marianne Williamson
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.
— Mark Twain
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
— Phillips Brooks
From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
America is the only place where man is full-grown!
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let everyone mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made
— Henry David Thoreau