Quotes About Progress

Chanakya says that as a Brahmin moves on after receiving offerings, a student goes his way after completing his education and animals abandon a burnt forest, similarly, a man should quickly leave the abode taken up for attaining his objective, after achieving his objective. This will indicate his wisdom.

Chanakya also says that nothing is more important than you. So, if you need to sacrifice the whole world for your progress and protection, then do so without any hesitation.

According to Chanakya, by pampering and accepting all the right or wrong demands of their children, they develop several bad habits. These bad habits hinder their progress and development in the future. It is, therefore, essential to discipline them also, in addition to loving them. A potter also needs to pat, caress and even beat the rotating mound on his wheel, to shape it into a beautiful pottery. Parents must also bring up and shape their children like the potter shapes his pottery.

According to Chanakya, by pampering and accepting all the right or wrong demands of their children, they develop several bad habits. These bad habits hinder their progress and development in the future. It is, therefore, essential to discipline them also, in addition to loving them.

John Newton looked across the kitchen table and said to William Cowper, "I'm not what I ought to be. I'm not what I want to be. I'm not what I hope to be. But thank God I'm not what I used to be.

Dr. Lloyd-Jones used to say, "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

As Dr. Lloyd-Jones used to say, "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

The future is here, it's just not widely distributed yet.

We are never completely contemporaneous with our present. History advances in disguise; it appears on stage wearing a mask of the preceding scene, and we tend to lose the meaning of the play.

The man of the future will be young or he will not be.

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough.

All new beginnings require that you unlock a new door.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

Among the many definitions of progress, "enemy of trees" and "killer of birds" seem to me the most apt.

There are a few places on the East Coast, and maybe Los Angeles, where women understand evening gowns. The rest of the country still has far to go.

When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.

We can look upon a road from two different points of view. One regards it as dividing us from the object of our desire; in that case we count every step of our journey over it as something attained by force in the face of obstruction. The other sees it as the road which leads us to our destination; and as such it is part of our goal.

Man's history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters.

those in this world who have the courage to try and solve in their own lives new problems of life are the ones who raise society to greatness! Those who merely live according to rule do not advance society, they only carry it along.

Man is a born child, his power is the power of growth.

For what are obstacles to the lower creatures are opportunities to the higher life of man.

Travolti dal torrente dell'incertezza, i nostri sogni hanno teso le braccia Per afferrare la terra. In mattoni e pietra si irrigidiscono i loro sogni e così sono state costruite le città dell'uomo.

organization grows vaster, and selfishness attains supremacy.

for centuries new experiments have been made and adjustments carried out.