Quotes About Development

Growth is not concerned with itself.

If we're not growing, we must feel guilty, because we are not fulfilling Christ's demand.

The biggest dog has been a pup.

Habit is habit, and not to be thrown out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Like swimming, riding, writing or playing golf, happiness can be learned.

What you become is what counts.

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.

A child is a temporarily disabled and stunted version of a larger person, whom you will someday know. Your job is to help them overcome the disabilities associated with their size and inexperience so that they get on with being that larger person.

First, teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

What its children become, that will the community become.

A child is fed with milk and praise.

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman, but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

One cannot make oneself, but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.

I wish that every child could have growing space because I think children are a little like plants. If they grow too close together, they become thin and sickly and never obtain maximum growth. We need room to grow.

Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

The child is father to the man.

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

A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.