Quotes About Development

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being

Genius is formed in quiet, character in the stream of human life

Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life.

Man errs as long as he strives.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stands on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed."

Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be.

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances. And yet we still possess the greatest of all freedoms, the power of developing our innermost selves in harmony with the moral order of the universe, and so winning peace of heart whatever obstacles we meet.

Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.

Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt

Man errs, till he has ceased to strive.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.

What you feed in yourself that grows.

He serves me somewhat darkly, now, I grant, Yet will he soon attain the light of reason.