Quotes About Development

Start moving, a step at a time, step after step. The positive momentum will take you from there.

I'm looking for things that are really connected - education, both in the developing world and at home. The way that that affects communities and, in particular, women.

You cannot have an advanced economy while holding women back from the workplace.

She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow

I mean, a male chauvinist pig isn't born, he's made, and more and more of them are being made by women.

It is not the size of a seed, but the size of what rises from it.

A flower's beauty is birthed in a seed's ugly struggles.

Your end can be greater than your beginning: butterflies are the greatest proof of this.

Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.

The uglier the caterpillar the lovelier the butterfly.

A bird that does not break out of its shell will die in its egg.

Any place where women are not respected or provided enough opportunities to grow and develop, cannot be a progressive place.

Is a self help or personal development book ruining your life?

A flower must bloom inside first before revealing its beauty to the world.

You are a product of your environment, but to be great your environment has to be a product of you.

A seed only begins to manifest its greatest potential the day it is buried in dirt.

A nation that does not provide a proper education for women is destroying their nation.

Genius is in you, but like a seed, you determine whether it dies or grows.

Wine had to be grapes first. Diamonds had to be rocks first. Butterflies had to be caterpillars first. Rainbows had to be storms first.

The tallest trees sometimes grow from the smallest seeds.

Seeds, not doubting their potential, rise and become forests.

Maybe, long ago, we used to be good. Maybe all little girls are good in the beginning.

An acorn is an oak tree inside out.

An oak tree is just a small nut that persevered against the taunts of doubt and fear.