Quotes About Progress

To relive the past is to relinquish the future. If you are willing to let go of the past, then you are ready to step into the future. When you choose to remain stuck in a moment, you become incapable of seizing divine moments.

Moments carry the momentum of the past and fuel the momentum for the future. Guy

If failure is our inevitable future, then let's fail boldly and fail forward.

If you are comfortable with where you are, you will never know how far you can go. If you refuse to change, then you refuse to grow.

If you want to change the world, start by making small changes to your world.

No te lleves tu pasado a tu futuro. No te lo lleves contigo. Tu pasado será tu futuro hasta que hayas tenido la valentía de crear un nuevo futuro.

A veces, prender fuego a tu pasado es menos alejarte de él, que elevarte por encima de él.

We do not argue about what happened in the past but discuss what we desire for the future.

Las viejas costumbres mueren despacio

Human relations never seem to stand completely still. This apple, for instance. It might ripen into something better than it now was, or, unromantically, it might rot away in his pocket.

Despite living in a time of unprecedented sexual freedom in America, the practice of policing sexuality has continued unabated since the days of the Puritans.

We bitch about our difficulties along the rough surface of our path, we curse every sharp stone underneath, until at some point in our maturation, we finally look down to see that they are diamonds.

what is true for human beings is true for every living thing: all organisms require alternating periods of growth and equilibrium. Any person or system exposed to ceaseless novelty and change risks falling into chaos; but one that is too rigid or static ceases to grow and eventually dies.

From his perspective, things are clear. "I want to rebuild with you, not rehash the same things over and over." I have explained to him that repetition helps restore coherence and is intrinsic to healing;

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome," Jimmy

On a journey into the unknown, perfect progress is perfectly impossible.

On a journey into the unknown, perfect progress is perfectly impossible. Edwin

I've always been shy physically. This in part tended to keep me from rushing into things, including relationships, headlong. Not rushing headlong, though I may have wanted to, but beginning to write stories about people, I drew near slowly; noting and guessing, apprehending, hoping, drawing my eventual conclusions out of my own heart, I did venture closer to where I wanted to go.

IL était comme un de ces voyageurs qui s'attardent dans les auberges en oubliant que le but du voyage n'est pas l'auberge

If we have to have motors to help us fly, it's no longer natural. People call this progress, but there's nothing progressive about walking with crutches. Soon we shall forget to walk, too, if we don't look out.

He who has a hundred miles to walk should reckon ninety as half the journey," he replied, quoting the proverb.

How far the pupil will go is not the concern of the teacher and Master. Hardly has he shown him the right way when he must let him go on alone.

You had to suffer shipwreck through your own efforts before you were ready to seize the lifebelt he threw you.

The future belongs, not to those who have the most, but to those who do the most with what they have.