Quotes about Development

Shakespeare said, "He is not worthy of the honeycomb that shuns the hive because the bees have stings." Don't let your fear keep you from taking small steps in your development. You never know where they might lead.

The mark of someone with potential to grow is openness to the process. When you look at people who are eager to learn more, you can bet they are on the right track. And when you talk to people who just don't want any more instruction, then they have pretty much hit the wall. They are done.

Make developing leaders a priority. It will require you to shift from doing to developing. It will require you to believe in people. And it will require you to share the load. Leadership is the art of helping people change from who they're thought to be to who they ought to be.

If others work for you, give your own time only to those who are willing to learn and grow.

Application: Applying what you've learned is sometimes difficult because it requires change. Most people change only when one of three things happens: they hurt enough that they have to, they learn enough that they want to, or they receive enough that they are able to. Your goal is to keep learning so that you want to change for the better every day.

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful then the risk it took to blossom.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

A position of dignity is more easily improved upon than acquired.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.