Quotes About Development

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

Man is a degeneration of what he was.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.

Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick.

I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

New York is one of man's greatest achievements.

MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

Men peak at age nineteen and go downhill.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.

Can it be that action is active resignation? Something is trying to develop; it moves ever so slightly, and there comes your man of action and bashes in the hothouse windows.