Quotes about Development
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
— Norman Vincent Peale
This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.
— Richard Baxter
The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.
— Henry Cloud
And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!
— Emily Bronte
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.
— Epictetus
Care for your body as needed, but put your main energies and efforts into cultivating your mind.
— Epictetus
For it is always true that to whatever point the perfecting of anything leads us, progress is an approach towards this point.
— Epictetus
Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.
— Stephen Covey
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
— Ayn Rand
Honest, simple work for young people is essential to their well-being.
— Jay Parini
No one can tell any nation what it should want. The nation should determine what they want and how to make their nation become as best as it can become - all of us want our nations to be the best of what they can become, for our children.
— Martin Luther King III
With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.
— Carmelo Anthony