Quotes About Development

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Learning is not a task or a problem-it is a way to be in the world. Man learns as he pursues goals and projects that have meaning for him.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

Man cannot really improve himself without improving others.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

We do not need men and women from other planets to develop India. Our people, our youth are skilled.

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.

Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.

Character is built out of circumstances. From exactly the same materials, one man builds palaces, while another builds hovels.

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

See, a good habit makes a child a man, Whereas a bad one makes a man a beast.

The same stimulus that animates men to action, will have a proportionate effect on juvenile minds.

The distrust and suspicion which men everywhere evidence toward their adversaries, at all states of historical development, may be regarded as the immediate precursor to the notion of ideology.