Quotes about Development

Confident people do not concentrate on their weaknesses; they develop and maximize their strengths.

Great character is not developed through ease and convenience but through doing NOW what needs to be done no matter how difficult it

Experience gives us confidence, but we never get experience unless we step out and try things we have not tried before.

Common people with uncommon goals who make an uncommon commitment can help an uncommon number of people who can also lead other common people to do uncommon things. Develop your potential to the full. And as you do, lead others in developing theirs. Be all you can be. Then help someone else be all they can be.

Leaders are not born; I believe they are made.

We pray for fruit in our lives, but we don't always want to pray for roots.

The pathway to change is to renew your mind.

Oh, yes, we all want to help others reach their full potential, especially our children and grandchildren. But the bottom line is that none of us can do that for someone else, and no one else can do it for us. We must each do it for ourselves. We must each discover our own God-given gifts and talents, what we are truly capable of, and then put ourselves to the task of developing those gifts, talents and capabilities to their fullest extent.

We learn as we go, not as we sit idly by and do nothing.

Just because we are anointed for leadership does not mean that we get to move immediately into a position of leadership. There is a work that has to be done in us, a testing that has to take place first. Later, we will look at some of the tests of the heart of a leader that we must go through before we get promoted. After

God desires that we become like Jesus in all of our ways, working with the Holy Spirit toward spiritual maturity and godly character.

Insecurity, self-doubt, and fear can totally prevent us from ever reaching our full potential. But if our confidence is in Christ rather than in ourselves, we are free to develop our potential because we are free from the fear of failure.