Quotes about Development

That is why the key to long-lasting success is to develop habits — new, positive habits that replace our self-defeating behaviors.

God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too.

Every relationship, every situation is part of a divinely created and highly specific curriculum for your soul growth

The most influential of all educational factors is the conversation in a child's home.

The most influential of all educational factor is the conversation in a child's home.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. ["The Power of Christian Young Men", Address at the Young Men's Christian Association's Celebration, Pittsburgh, October 24, 1914]

When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants. Even

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs, but if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, Ogilvy & Mather will become a company of giants.

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

A seed only realizes its potential the day you bury it.

There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.

The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.