Quotes About Development

Two-parent sex appeared on the scene about 500,000,000 years ago.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.

The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.

Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.

Remember, the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough.

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.

Until they are of the age to use the brain.

Many people who wonder why they don't amount to more than they do have good stuff in them, and are energetic, persevering, and have ample opportunities. It is all a case of trimming the useless branches and throwing the whole force of power into the development of something that counts.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were.

Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few: Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

The future comes one day at a time.

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

The mind grows by what it feeds on.

One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.