Quotes About Progress

Unshackled by strict yet arbitrary, misguided norms, outcasts can be, look, act, and associate however they want. And in this ever conformist, cookie-cutter, magazine-celebrity-worshipping, creativity-stifling society, the innovation, courage, and differences of the cafeteria fringe are vital to America's culture and progress. Which is why we must celebrate them.

It's better to make a change now than to keep living your mistake simply because you worked hard to get there.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

This will do, said he, and from this letter, which might have ruined me, I will make my fortune. Now to the work I have in hand. And after having assured himself that the prisoner was gone, the deputy procureur hastened to the house of his betrothed.

We are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no promotion.

Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done.

Forward! Still forward! said he. When it shall be time, God will tell me, as he has told the others.

Dantes was on the way he desired to follow, and was moving towards the end he wished to achieve; his heart was in a fair way of petrifying in his bosom.

Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man

So never be embarrassed by mistakes, rather, be thankful for them, because they always present an opportunity for personal growth.

Each truth we find (in life) leads us a step closer to God.

I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

It is now clear that we have hung on to too much for too long.

The point here is not that you should always forgo this kind of weakness fixing. The point is that you should see it for what it is: damage control, not development. And as we mentioned earlier, damage control can prevent failure, but it will never elevate you to excellence.

Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.

As the wit W. C. Fields advised: 'If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There is no point making a fool of yourself.' This advice is easy to give and difficult to put into practice, but as you build your strengths, sometimes making great progress, sometimes slipping back, take comfort from the fact that this is how a strong life is supposed to be lived.

Ours is a time of space telescopes, electron microscopes, supercomputers, and the worldwide web. This is not a time for parsing the lessons given to a few goatherds, tentmakers, and camel drivers. Rev. Michael Dowd, Thank God for Evolution!

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, "The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind.

No one coasts into Christlikeness. Any progress in godliness requires Spirit-filled effort and purpose.

Cualquiera que mida su progreso en ser como Cristo solamente en términos del crecimiento de su comunión con Dios está haciendo una medición incompleta. La madurez espiritual también incluye el crecimiento en la fraternidad con los hijos de Dios.

He lost himself in visions of work to be done, that always remained to be done.

If we're going to get this country out of its current energy situation, we can't just conserve our way out. We can't just drill our way out. We can't bomb our way out. We're going to do it the old-fashioned, American way. We're going to invent our way out, working together.