Quotes about Development
Optimizing return on capital will generate less growth than optimizing return on education.
- Clayton M. Christensen
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
- Frederick Douglass
Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.
- Jerry Bridges
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
- Frank Herbert
A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Because human development is the most specific and exalted mission of woman, studies in anthropology and theory of pedagogy are essential in girls' education.
- Edith Stein
All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.
- Paulo Coelho
The seeds of success in every nation on Earth are best planted in women and children.
- Joyce Banda
I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Change in all things is sweet.
- Aristotle
Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and cultivate awareness.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
- Khalil Gibran