Quotes About Development

This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.2

Suppose you had inherited the same body and temperament and mind that Al Capone had. Suppose you had had his environment and experiences. You would then be precisely what he was—and where he was. For it is those things— and only those things—that made him what he was. The only reason, for example, that you are not a rattlesnake is that your mother and father weren't rattlesnakes.

are all imperfect beings full of shortcomings, and this affords us perhaps as many opportunities

This is when my business began to not only turn around; it began to take off.

And that's what true leaders do. They unfold the lives of others and help them reach their God-given potential.

Fórjese la idea de la persona capaz, empeñosa, útil, que desea ser, y esa idea lo irá transformando hora tras hora en tal individuo... El pensamiento es supremo

For "the great aim of education," said Herbert Spencer, the English sociologist and philosopher, "is not knowledge but action.

Wouldn't you suppose that every college in the land would conduct courses to develop the highest-priced ability under the sun? But if there is just one practical, common-sense course of that kind given for adults in even one college in the land, it has escaped my attention up to the present

PRINCIPLE 6 Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be 'hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.

that my lack of experience, not my lack of ability, was the reason for the failure.

Since no such book existed, I have tried to write one for use in my own courses.

el gran objetivo de la educación —dijo Herbert Spencer— no es el conocimiento, sino la acción".

She was nineteen, had graduated from high school three years previously, and her business experience was a trifle more than zero. She became one of the most proficient secretaries west of Suez, but in the beginning, she was—well, susceptible to improvement.

Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.

This process is a slow one, but one that will always bear fruit.

un profundo, impulsivo deseo de aprender, una vigorosa decisión de aumentar su capacidad para tratar con la gente.

In time, we lose our freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.

More than any other single thing, in any case, the practical irrelevance of actual obedience to Christ accounts for the weakened effect of Christianity in the world today, with its increasing tendency to emphasize political and social action as the primary way to serve God. It also accounts for the practical irrelevance of Christian faith to individual character development and overall personal sanity and well-being.

the intention of God is that we should each become the kind of person whom he can set free in his universe, empowered to do what we want to do. Just as we desire and intend this, so far as possible, for our children and others we love, so God desires and intends it for his children. But character, the inner directedness of the self, must develop to the point where that is possible.

In relation to spiritual disciplines, the most helpful distinction is the difference between trying to do something and training to do something.

To train means arranging our life around those practices that enable us to do what we cannot now do by direct effort. The point of training is to receive power, so we arrange our life around practices through which we get power.

The spiritual side of the human being, Christian and non-Christian alike, develops into the reality that it becomes, for good or ill.

Christ is the only one capable of communicating to and developing within the believer an accurate image and idea of God.

Disciplines are activities that are in our power and that enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort.