Quotes About Development

It cannot be your duty to do anything that is beyond your reach or your strength at the moment. It cannot be your duty to do anything that sacrifices your own integrity or your own spiritual development.

Our failures are those who do not learn these things in the years they are here.

I do not count as our successes those who have won scholarships and passed exams, though these are good things to do. I count as our successes those who learn to be good-hearted and kind, sensible and trustable, good, sound women the world can lean on. Our failures are those who do not learn these things in the years they are here.

Don't be an old dirty leaf, be a neat new leaf if you are an old dirty leaf you can't feed the plant and the plant will throw you from it if you are a neat new leaf you can feed the plant and the plant will keep you with it. The old dirty leaf means bad habits. The neat new leaf means good habits. The plant means every one around you.

ugly duckling turned into a swan!

Al acercarnos al otro nos abrimos al reconocimiento de la diversidad social y cultural, uno de los valores indispensables para el desarrollo de la tolerancia y la convivencia civilizada.

Control puberty? snorted the bodyguard.If you manage that, you'll be the first.

Invent things that people actually want. Keep your thoughts to yourself until you are ready to patent your invention

Maybe if we're living in the middle of a development with plenty of witnesses, then Hooke might settle down some and back off. Squib's warped reasoning was based on a child's understanding of evil men. He couldn't know that specimens like Regence Hooke didn't get settled down; they got riled up.

evolution had stripped them of this power.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Nothing great comes into being all at once, for that is not the case even with a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me now, 'I want a fig,' I'll reply, 'That takes time.

Is then the fruit of a fig-tree not perfect suddenly and in one hour, and would you possess the fruit of a man's mind in so short a time and so easily?

Adopt new habits yourself: consolidate your principles by putting them into practice.

Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes and figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. So if the fruit of a fig tree is not brought to maturity instantly or in an hour, how do you expect the human mind to come to fruition, so quickly and easily?

One person likes tending to his farm, another to his horse; I like to daily monitor my self-improvement.

Proper preparation for the future consists of forming good personal habits.

What would have become of Hercules, do you think, if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar – and no savage criminals to rid the world of? [33] What would he have done in the absence of such challenges? Obviously he would have just rolled over in bed and gone back to sleep. So by snoring his life away in luxury and comfort he never would have developed into the mighty Hercules.

Care for your body as needed, but put your main energies and efforts into cultivating your mind.

For it is always true that to whatever point the perfecting of anything leads us, progress is an approach towards this point.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig; if you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Nothing important comes into being overnight; even grapes or figs need time to ripen. If you say that you want a fig now, I will tell you to be patient. First, you must allow the tree to flower, then put forth fruit; then you have to wait until the fruit is ripe. [8] So if the fruit of a fig tree is not brought to maturity instantly or in an hour, how do you expect the human mind to come to fruition, so quickly and easily?

Study, not in order to add anything to your knowledge, but to make your knowledge better.

You should keep learning as long as you are ignorant, – even to the end of your life, if there is anything in the proverb. And the proverb suits the present case as well as any: As long as you live, keep learning how to live.