Development Quotes - Page 4

• All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Leadership, Opportunity

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• To be successful, you have to develop certain traits such as courage, dignity, charisma and integrity. You also have to recognize that you have to work harder on yourself than on your job. You attract success because of the person you are. Personal development is key.

  Jim Rohn

  Jobs, Integrity, Hard Work

  Source: www.selfgrowth.com

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• Things are both getting better and getting worse. The madness is accelerating but an acceleration of the new consciousness is also coming in. However, this latter development is less apparent when you listen to the media. The media still mostly reflects what is happening in the sphere of the old consciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Media, Get Better, Spheres

  Source: www.soulwise.net

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• My other creative outlet is knitting; aside from being fun, it is my antidote to the film business: I have full creative control, there is no development process, and I can self-finance.

  Linda Goldstein Knowlton

  Fun, Knitting, Self

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

  Bruce Jenner

  Life, Insecure, Insecurity

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspirational, Wise, Travel

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• All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Work, Mean, Effort

  Calvin Coolidge (1924). “Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings”

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• The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

  Thales

  Life, Personal Growth, Know Yourself

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds". Book by Henry Southgate, p. 338, 1862.

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• The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Leadership, Helping Others, People

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• Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Selfish, Mean, Responsibility

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• Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Men, Order

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.171, A&C Black

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• Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

  Kofi Annan

  Equality, Goal, Challenges

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Humanity, Use, Records

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• What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

  Tim Ferriss

  Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

  Jim Courier

  Encouragement, Tennis, Intellectual

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• These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these challenges in their communities, volunteering to make a difference. They remain the true champions of our work towards the Millennium Development Goals.

  Kofi Annan

  Hero, Earthquakes, Differences

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• The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Twitter post from Jul 19, 2009

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• The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

  Oscar Wilde

  Happiness, Live Life, Yoga

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.183, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.

  Joseph Conrad

  Law, Justice, Principles

  Joseph Conrad (1996). “Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard”, p.341, Wordsworth Editions

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• The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head, but on the other hand, we have become through the development of humanity so tenderly suffering that we need the highest kind of means of salvation and consolation: whence arises the danger that man may bleed to death through the truth that he realises.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Heart, Mean

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• I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth

  Secret, Belief, Youth

  Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Michael Teague (1981). “Mrs. L.: conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth”, Doubleday Books

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• Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Change, Clever

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• Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

  Jenny Shipley

  Equality, Sisterhood, Views

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• We work with the people not out of pity but out of respect for their potential for growth and development, both as individuals and as communities.

  Y. C. James Yen

  Respect, People, Community

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