Quotes about Development

If you stop and think about it, you will realize that most godly character traits can only be developed through adversity.

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development.

That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.

It is not basically a question of the size in repose, I said. It is the size that it becomes. It is also a question of angle.

Whatever you focus upon, increases.

But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

Where there's no progress, there's no growth. If there's no growth, there's no life. Environments void of change are eventually void of life.

Your talent and giftedness as a leader have the potential to take you farther than your character can sustain you. That ought to scare you.

But leadership is not always about getting things done "right." Leadership is about getting things done through other people. Leaders miss opportunities to play to their strengths because they haven't figured out that great leaders work through other leaders, who work through others. Leadership is about multiplying your efforts, which automatically multiplies your results.

Delegation—either to time or to other people.… Transferring responsibility to other skilled and trained people enables you to give your energies to other high-leverage activities. Delegation means growth, both for individuals and for organizations.