Quotes About Development

Men are what their mothers made them.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

It facilitates labor and thought so much that there is always the temptation in large schools to omit the endless task of meeting the wants of each single mind, and to govern by steam. But it is at frightful cost. Our modes of Education aim to expedite, to save labor; to do for masses what cannot be done for masses, what must be done reverently, one by one: say rather, the whole world is needed for the tuition of each pupil.

Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series. Every general law only a particular fact of some more general law presently to disclose itself. There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us. The

I have forgotten the books I have read, and so I have the dinners I have eaten, but they both helped to make me.

I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I've eaten; even so, they have made me.

The truest test of civilization is not the census, size of cities, or crops; but the kind of man the country turns out.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.

Don't choose the better person, choose the person who makes a better you.

WHOEVER considers the final cause of the world, will discern a multitude of uses that result. They all admit of being thrown into one of the following classes; Commodity; Beauty; Language; and Discipline. Under the general name of Commodity, I rank all those advantages which our senses owe to nature. This, of course, is a benefit which is temporary and mediate, not

Every artist was first an amateur

Features well cured make us strong.

Only one competency lasts. It is the ability to create a steady, self-renewing stream of leaders. Money is just a commodity. Talent supplies the edge.

Leaders who are disciplined, determined, consistent, and persistent in developing these know-hows tend to be successful on a sustained basis. In that sense, leaders are made.

Investing a half hour a day in reading, seven days a week, 365 days a year, is a habit that will bring more value to you and your leadership strength than any other investment of your time. It doesn't have to be books, and if it is, don't brag about how many you've read. Just search for the new ideas, new insights, and new pieces of information.

It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.

All of a sudden the progress will stop one day, and you will find yourself, as it were, stranded. Persevere. All progress proceeds by such rise and fall."—Vivekananda

From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develop appreciation.

Each of us has our own unique karmic predicament, our own unique work to do. The predicament is that there is nowhere to stand, because our identification with the person who has the karma is changing too. As you develop the witness and identify more with your spiritual heart, karma just is.

The caterpillar does not become a flying caterpillar; it morphs into a butterfly.

What is now in the past was once in the future

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.