Quotes About Development

If you don't create change, change will create you

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.

Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

Worry is the darkroom in which negatives are developed

Difficulties are stepping stones to success.

The main problem with teenagers is that they're just like their parents were at their age.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up.

To become educated is to move from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.

Hard work is the yeast that raises the dough

A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image.

Globalization is a strategy of liberalization that becomes an economic nightmare for the poor

Permissiveness and inconsistency with growing children do them more harm than some physical ailments.

Many parents are finding out that a pat on the back helps develop character - if given often enough, early enough, and low enough

The search for perfection begins with detecting imperfection

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

Experience is largely non-transferable.

A friend is someone who knows you as you are, understands where you've been, accepts what you've become and still gently invites you to grow.

Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.

An individual cannot know what he is till he has made himself real by action.

Education is not received. It is achieved.

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.