Quotes About Development

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

Law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

Every new time will give its law.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Men, in general, are but great great children.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing; that it is growth rather than treatment.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty, nothing at all.

Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.

It is a matter first of beginning-and then following through.

Character is built into the spiritual fabric of personality hour by hour, day by day, year by year in much the same deliberate way that physical health is built into the body.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Be content to grow a little each day. If the improvement is the sort of thing which is very slow, do not measure it too often. Do a self-comparison every two weeks, or every six months, whatever is appropriate.

The way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

I'm not there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday.