Quotes About Development

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.

To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

Smart phones, smart cars, smart televisions... when are they going to start making smart people?

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ...

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development in order to improve the quality of life of people in my country in particular and in the African region in general.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

It seems to me a certainty that the fatalistic teachings of Mohammed and the utter degradation of the Arab women are the outstanding causes for the arrested development of the Arab. He is exactly as he was around the year 700, while we have been developing.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

All women are born evil. Some just realize their potential later in life than others.

If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Time has a way of changing things, and change is gone come whether we like it or not.

Life shouldn't be about making yourself a better person, life should be about bettering your self to be the person you want to be.

The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task: Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

A perfect relationship is when two non-perfect people empower each other to better themselves for one another and for the world around them.