Quotes About Progression

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Our conversion comes step by step, line upon line. We first build a foundation of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

We need to grow from faith to faith so that we can have victory over the world

I love you more today than yesterday but nothing like tomorrow.

A great attitude becomes a great day which becomes a great month which becomes a great year which becomes a great life.

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.

O greseala te duce spre alta, o minciuna urmeaza alteia si astfel adevarul nu mai poate iesi la lumina.

Desde el momento en que nacemos, también se inicia la vejez

On the whole, it is less the sequence of ages that holds his attention than the general feeling of a kind of fatality:

The ages of life can be evoked independently from the progression that advancing age implies, by means of anticipation, which lays out a future, or memory, which recreates the past, and in any case, by letting the imagination play with time.

Det som hadde begynt som en feber to år tidligere, var nå blitt nesten kaldt som is.

The Emergence of Kings and Kingdoms

We must bear in mind that the character which a man exhibits in the latter half if his life is not always, though it often is, his original character developed or withered, attenuated or enlarged; it is sometimes the exact reverse, like a garment that has been turned.

I was not one man only but the steady advance hour after hour of an army in close formation, in which there appeared, according to the moment, impassioned men, indifferent men, jealous men.

From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star.

You can't start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relieved when they get to democracy that they hang on to it.

Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.

Start with short stories. After all, if you were taking up rock climbing, you wouldn't start with Mount Everest. So if you're starting fantasy, don't start with a nine-book series.

Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on

Life is a series of events strung together like a phrase of a sentence, forever chancing and forever adapting. Turn the page and read on.

Life is a sequence of events whether you perceive those events as good or bad is your choice, but it is in a sequence.

Those who are strong realize that life is too short to hold anger against people, because holding onto these ill feelings will do nothing but slow down their progression.

To tell the truth, I had reached the point with Albertine where (if everything continues in the same way, if things follow the normal course) a woman has no more interest for us except as the means of transition to another woman.