Internal Development Quotes

The world can only change from within.

We should be building a nation and it should be called the United States of America. We are spending all our money nation-building in other places and they don't even want us.

The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes as it develops itself from within.

Although a firm swat could bring a recalcitrant child swiftly into line, the changes were usually external, lasting only as long as the swatter remained in view....Permanent transformation had to be internal....The habits of self discipline, as laborious and frustrating as they were to achieve, offered the only real possibility of keeping children safe from their own excesses as well as the omnipresent dangers of society.

I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.

Whatever we can't develop internally - and nobody develops everything internally - you have to be able to trade and sign free agents.

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

Fighters are raised into MMA. It's more about what's internal, not what's God given. When you have a great fighter like Rickson Gracie or Fedor Emelianenko-they're greater than the others because they have an internal spiritual being that separates them from the rest in their craft. They have the warrior spirit.

Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.

Democracy cannot be exported to some other place. This must be a product of internal domestic development in a society.

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

Develop the business around the people; build it, don't buy it; and, then, be the best.

The fruit does not come from the outside, the fruit is created within you. Whatever you do, you develop receptivity for it inside yourself. Someone who wants love should give his love. Someone who wants bliss should start sharing his bliss. Someone who wants flowers to shower in his home should shower flowers in other people's homes. There is no other way. So compassion is an emotion that each person has to develop in order to enter into meditation.

We can win respect in the world only if we are strong internally and can banish poverty and unemployment from our country.

It's been great that every title that we've done internally has been a huge success, but when you've got 50 or 100 people on there, all their families and everyone counting on you there, the idea of 'What if you screw up once?' or 'What if the market changes?'

KIND had grown from a team of dedicated, overworked generalists to a large, professional organization with specialists who had either come in from outside or had been groomed internally to grow in a focused area about which they're passionate.

We made the commitment internally to develop our own superior vapor product. We didn't buy a company outside, and we believe that Vuse is a superior and game-changing technology.

Grow a leader-grow the organization. A company cannot grow without until its leaders grow within.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

You cannot import anything from outside your country regarding the future of your country.