Quotes about Development

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

Every city is a living body.

Then, again, there are three things which every artificer must possess if he is to effect anything,—nature, education, practice. Nature is to be judged by capacity, education by knowledge, practice by its fruit.

The education of the human race, represented by the people of God, has advanced, like that of an individual, through certain epochs, or, as it were, ages, so that it might gradually rise from earthly to heavenly things, and from the visible to the invisible.

Passing hence from infancy, I came to boyhood, or rather it came to me, displacing infancy. Nor did that depart,—(for whither went it?)—and yet it was no more.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Good, better, best, never let it rest 'til the good is the better, and the better is the best

Nothing is yet in its true form.

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

The truth is my development I hope is the same way as everything, which is, I succeed some, I fail some, and I keep slugging away at it. I really enjoy it. It's fun.

Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth.

The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it — that's how we learn.