Positive Development Quotes

It is the time to move ahead and bring the change

People whose integrity has not been damaged in childhood, who were protected, respected, and treated with honesty by their parents, will be-both in their youth and in adulthood-intelligent, responsive, empathic, and highly sensitive. They will take pleasure in life and will not feel any need to kill or even hurt others or themselves. They will use their power to defend themselves, not to attack others. They will not be able to do otherwise than respect and protect those weaker than themselves, including their children, because this is what they have learned from their own experience.

I feel like I'm evolving quickly with my confidence, physically, just everything.

Change is almost always negative. Things degenerate.

Emphasize strengths, don't fix weaknesses.

People have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.

They have a fine breeze and are now we hope, well on their way.

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.

I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.

I wish I was 100 percent confident in my own skin. It's always a process, but getting older, I've become more confident.

The character [Maigret] is bound to change and develop, and I wouldn't like to claim that we are perfectly formed straight out of the box. I think it's what I'd call an 'optimistic start'. As you know, for me, no glass is anything other than half empty, so I apologise for my reticence in terms of promoting this programme.

I hope each week I grow and impress you guys and make you happy.

I've learned that creating a healthy, active environment for kids helps build the foundation for a successful future.

It's P for Progress not R for Recovery.

You are making better progress than you realize.

The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men, but not how to save them; how to die, but seldom how to live.

A small step in a good direction.

We've got enormous potential, phenomenal potential on our doorstep, which requires politics that makes that work, and that's what we try to show here in Ireland: that while there's a lot of pain, the reward at the end of this is career opportunities, prosperity, and brighter days for everybody.

I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving.

A confident and forward-looking nation is built by confident and forward-looking young people.

All change may not be progress, but all progress is the result of change

I’ve met kids who haven’t had the best of parents but because they had something in them, or they had somebody at school help develop them, they turned out fine.

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.