Quotes About Growth

Niente come tornare in un luogo rimasto immutato ci fa scoprire quanto siamo cambiati...

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the result.

lay a lost and delightful world, the world of my childhood, the world of sweet and irresponsible days at Qunu and Mqhekezweni. Now I was a man, and I would never again play thinti, or steal maize, or drink milk from a cow's udder.

Je ne perds jamais. Soit je gagne, soit j'apprends.

tenían ese gran respeto por la educación que tan a menudo muestran quienes carecen de ella...

I never lose. I either win or I learn.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

I was a hotheaded young man who attempted to make up for his ignorance with militancy.

And nothing would ever happen if we always stayed the same ["The Sweetness"].

What's the use of being given a load of manure if you don't spread it around?

when she was a young woman she valued intelligence over all other human attributes. Now that she was older she valued kindness.

Life is a meadow, you just have to find a way to pick the flowers.

To the unenlightened man this will seem to be all fantasy, yet all progress comes from those who do not take the accepted view, nor accept the world as it is.

There is nothing wrong with our desire to transcend our present state. There would be no progress in this world were it not for man's dissatisfaction with himself. It is natural for us to seek a more beautiful personal life; it is right that we wish for greater understanding, greater health, greater security.

Everything depends upon our attitude towards ourselves. That which we will not affirm as true of ourselves will not develop in our lives.

He who rises from his prayer a better man, his prayer has been granted.

Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience.

There is no coal of character so dead that it will not glow and flame if but slightly turned. Don't blame; only resolve. Life, like music, can by a new setting turn all its discords into harmonies.

This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize." Phil. 3:13,14

everything depends upon our attitude towards ourselves. That which we will not affirm as true of ourselves cannot develop in our life.

I thought I could change others through effort. Now I know I cannot change another unless I first change myself. To change another within my world I must first change my concept of that other; and to do it best I change my concept of self. For it was the concept I held of self that made me see others as I did.

But one thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching forward to the things which are before, I press on toward the goal. —Philippians 3:13,14

En lugar de desarrollar la imaginación del hombre, nuestro sistema educativo muchas veces lo sofoca tratando poner en la mente del hombre la sabiduría que busca. Le obliga a memorizar una cantidad de libros que, muy pronto, son refutados por libros posteriores. La educación no se logra poniendo algo en el hombre; su propósito es sacar del hombre la sabiduría que está latente en él.