Quotes About Development

Man is a child of his environment

If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.

To improve the oarsman you must improve the man.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

If boys don't learn, men won't know.

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.

Not only is it harder to be a man, it is also harder to become one.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

Boys and young men acquire readily the moral sentiments of their social milieu, whatever these sentiments may be.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

Times don't change. Men do.

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.