Quotes About Progress

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

It is right that you should begin again every day. There is no better way to complete the spiritual life than to be ever beginning it over again.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

It is my earnest hope, and indeed the hope of all mankind, that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past...

You will not see anyone who is truly striving after his spiritual advancement who is not given to spiritual reading.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.

In terms of changes, the spiritual mentors teach me that I must not forget those relating primarily to improve myself.

Complacency is the deadly enemy of spiritual progress. The contented soul is the stagnant soul.

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it!

Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.

Nature does not proceed by leaps.

To become learned, each day add something. To become enlightened, each day drop something

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

To live two days in succession on the same spiritual plane is a tragedy

The very purpose of life is to reach the highest possible flowering.

You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

The spiritual path is one of falling on your face, getting up, brushing yourself off, turning and looking sheepishly at God and then taking the next step.

Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel, for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are.

In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.