Quotes about Development

Waiting for perfect is never as smart as making progress.

Marketing begins before the product is launched.

As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do

Every good choice makes the next one easier and more delightful.

The changing thing begins with only the potential to change, but it needs to be acted on by other things outside if that potential is to be made actual. Otherwise it cannot change.

each one needs something outside itself to actualize its potentiality for change.

Quite often the Lord uses the adversity in our lives as a lens through which He can be seen! In the process of it all, He is developing our character so that we can be worthy reflectors of His glory. Paul teaches us that character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trials and suffering can the soul be strengthened.

A thick and shapeless trunk would never believe that it could become a statue, admired as a miracle of sculpture, and would never consent to submit itself to the chisel of the sculptor who sees by his genius what he can make of it.

The butterfly needs the hardship to make it strong enough to fly. The struggle pumps fluid to its wings and gives it the strength to survive. If I were to help it by cutting away the chrysalis, it would die. So all we can do is stand back and observe its own efforts to free itself.

Your error is that you think this world is the reality. In truth, eternity is the reality and this life is but a shadow, a place to develop our character and grow more like Jesus.