Quotes about Development

Whatever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits

it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

We decided to relax and get out of his way and let his own personality emerge.

Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it. It's inside-out.

Leadership is communicating to another their worth and potential so clearly they are inspired to see it in themselves.

The purpose of teaching is learning and learning is changed behavior.

Our home is a place of fun, relaxation, learning, friends, growth, and order, to develop ourselves into the kinds of people who can contribute to the world.

Our character, basically, is a composite of our habits. "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit

Habit as the intersection of knowledge, skill, and desire.

Leadership is communicating others' worth and potential so clearly that they are inspired to see it in themselves.

In order to see our son differently, Sandra and I had to be different. Our new paradigm was created as we invested in the growth and development of our own character. Paradigms are inseparable from character. Being is seeing in the human dimension. And what we see is highly interrelated to what we are. We can't go very far to change our seeing without simultaneously changing our being, and vice versa.

If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control—myself.