Quotes about Development

In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work—brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment.3 I am fascinated by this research

God is good. He is way more interested in developing our characters to match our calling than in manipulating our circumstances to make us happy.

Access without application will not equal transformation.

On the other hand, when I change to a growth mind-set, I don't chain my identity to my insecurity.

Inspiration and information without personal application will never amount to transformation

Time grows the seeds that are planted, watered, and fertilized. Plant beauty, grow beauty. Plant thorns, grow thorns. Time will allow for either.

Rewriting the go-to scripts is one of the most crucial steps toward permanent progress.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

In order to understand how a man receives a wound, you must understand the central truth of a boy's journey to manhood: Masculinity is bestowed. A boy learns who he is and what he's got from a man, or the company of men. He cannot learn it any other place. He cannot learn it from other boys, and he cannot learn it from the world of women.

The Via Media has slept in libraries; it is a substitute of infancy for manhood.

I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry.

Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person.