Quotes about Development

Being planted and being buried may feel similar—if not identical—but the intention leads to very different outcomes.

There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

A man should never be appointed into a managerial position if his vision focuses on people's weaknesses rather than on their strengths.

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

Men are what their mothers made them.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.