Quotes About Development

Human history begins with man's act of disobedience which is at the same time the beginning of his freedom and the development of his reason.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

It's better to build boys than mend men.

The better a man is the more mistakes will he make – for the more new things he will try.

A boy can be two, three, four potential people, but a man is only one. He murders the others.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

Men are what their mothers made them.

A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.

A really good style comes only when a man has become as good as he can be. Style is character. A good style cannot come from a bad undisciplined character.

My future's about trying to be a better man

To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

That man is idle who can do something better.

Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.