Quotes About Development

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.

The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.

Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

To understand the seriousness of abortion, one must know the physiology of human development. Ignorance of these facts is in part why mothers are willing to have an abortion and the general public allows abortions on demand.

That's how games work—we fail our way toward understanding through play.

The Christian story did not drop from heaven fully written. It grew and developed year by year over a period of forty-two to seventy years. That is not what most Christians have been taught to think, but it is factual. Christianity has always been an evolving story. It was never, even in the New Testament, a finished story.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

There is no more vulnerable human combination than an undergraduate.

Serving Leaders build teaching organizations to create excellence at every level.

Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.

Serving Leaders work hard to get obstacles out of the way so others can make progress.

The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

If overpopulation or lack of resources created poverty, then Hong Kong should be poor. Hong Kong has 20 times as many people per square mile as India, and no valuable natural resources. Yet Hong Kong is rich; the average income there is higher than in Great Britain or Canada. This is a recent development. In the 1920s, Hong Kong was as poor as India. But in a relatively short time it became rich because of one key ingredient: economic freedom.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by mere want of sustenance; and in the majority of young persons it speedily dies away if the occupations to which their position in life has devoted them, and the society into which it has thrown them, are not favourable to keeping that higher capacity in exercise.

Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.

Having said that Individuality is the same thing with development, and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings, I might here close the argument: for what more or better can be said of any condition of human affairs, than that it brings human beings themselves nearer to the best thing they can be?