Quotes About Development

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

A school should not be a preparation for life. A school should be life.

Work to become, not to acquire.

Now is your trying time; now you are learning how to become master of every power that you possess; and if you are careless of your opportunities now you will be less a man some day than you might have been.

Your happiness and excellence as men depend greatly upon the use you make of your time while you are boys, for now you are building, habit by habit and thought by thought, the characters which you will have when you are men.

Learning is Messy.

Teachers are often, and understandably, impatient for their students to develop clear and adequate ideas. But putting ideas in relation to each other isn't a simple job. It's confusing and this confusion does take time. All of us need time for our confusion if we are to build the breadth and depth that give significance to our knowledge.

All of life is a constant education.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can grow only as long as we are interested.

Whatever period of life we are in is good only to the extent that we make use of it, that we live it to the hilt, that we continue to develop and understand what it has to offer us and what we have to offer it. The rewards for each age are different in kind, but they are not necessarily different in value or in satisfaction.

We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself.

We cannot shut the windows and pull down the shades; we cannot say, "I have learned all I need to know; my opinions are fixed on everything. I refuse to change or to consider these new things." Not today. Not any more.

I am not a gifted person. I had only three assets: I was keenly interested, I accepted every challenge and every opportunity to learn more, and I had great energy and discipline.

Or perhaps one can learn only by one's own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living.

We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a very real sense, by the time we are adult, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.

If the child's curiosity is not fed, if his questions are not answered, he will stop asking questions. And then, by the time he is in his middle twenties, he will stop wondering about all the mysteries of his world. His curiosity will be dead.

Whatever period of life we are in is good only to the extent that we make use of it, that we live it to the hilt, that we continue to develop and understand what it has to offer us and we have to offer it.

We obtain our education at home, at school, and, most important, from life itself. The learning process must go on as long as we live.

I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."

WE ALL create the person we become by our choices as we go through life.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.