Quotes About Development

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Progress - the stride of God!

Better is the enemy of the good.

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.

Revolutions are not made; they come.

Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need.

Skills vary with the man. We must... strive by that which is born in us.

The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Rome was not built in a day.

What some invent the rest enlarge.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Human beings aren't orchids; we must draw something from the soil we grow in.

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.

Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.

Self-searching is the means by which we bring new vision, action, and grace to bear upon the dark and negative side of our natures. With it comes the development of that kind of humility that makes it possible for us to receive God's help. ... We find that bit by bit we can discard the old life-the one that did not work-for a new life that can and does work under conditions whatever.

The cure for grief is motion.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2,000,000,000 years, asexual reproduction was the rule. You know, if you were a creature, you just separated into two clones.