Nurturing Growth Quotes

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

A mentor must always guide, never push. It was my job to listen to them, offer my perspective, and encourage them to pursue the ideals they believed to be true.

You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow.

It's a wonderful opportunity to be part of a child's growing up, which is always an endless springtime. You see the blossoming and the growing and the nurturing and the payoff.

When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.

What's nurtured slowly grows well.

To freely bloom that is my definition of success. The question then is, How does arguing with our children advance our goal that our children freely bloom.

To assist a child we must provide him with an environment which will enable him to develop freely.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

When you invest in people and lift them toward their potential, they will love you for it.

Everyone knows that weeds eat out the life of the garden and of the productive fields. It's like that in the building and developing of character. No one knows our own faults and tendencies better than we do ourselves, so that it is up to each one of us to keep the weeds out, and to keep all growth vigorous and fruitful.

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

Like most teachers, I'm just another sower of seeds.

We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

When everything starts going wrong all at once, it is to protect something big and lovely that is trying to get itself born.

Vision is about more than just getting things done, accomplishing some task, achieving something; it is about discovering and expanding our view of others, affirming them, believing in them, and helping them discover and realize the potential within them-helping them find their own voice.

I'd like to be remembered as the sower of seeds. That's the greatest parable in the bible as far as I'm concerned. Some seeds fall in the pathway, get stomped on and don't grow. Some fall on the stones and don't even sprout, but others fall on the ground and multiply a thousand fold.

He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.

Flowers flourish when they're watered, and shrivel up when they're not. People are no different. The best leaders are the ones who look for the best in people.

Perhaps the most promising trend in our thinking about leadership is the growing conviction that the purposes of the group are best served when the leader helps followers develop their own initiative, strengthens them in the use of their own judgment, enables them to grow, and to become better contributors.

I work like a gardener.

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.