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Quotes About Progress

You cannot take the life of your times further than you have taken yourself.
~ Laurens van der Post
You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two; don't make two moves at one time; move up, not down; and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
~ Leo Rosten
As your understanding of life continues to grow, you can walk upon this planet safe and secure, always moving forward toward your greater good.
~ Louise Hay
A comfortable and regulated life is needed for fastest pace of evolution.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.
~ Steve Jobs
I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.
~ Lou Reed
No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake
~ Albert Einstein
Let's make something happen to this world.
~ Marina Keegan
We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.
~ Freeman Thomas
If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
~ Yoko Ono
I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.
~ Michelle Shocked
Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.
~ Jose Ortega y Gasset
Sometimes I think no matter how one is born, no matter how one acts, there is something out of gear with one somewhere, and that must be changed. Life at its best is a grand corrective.
~ Jessie Redmon Fauset
I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.
~ Jessye Norman
I knew nothing about martial arts. The coach told me I was talented with learning martial arts, and put me in a school. Three years later I got my first championship in China.
~ Jet Li
Maar, lieve mensen, u zult toch een beetje moeten denken, dat geeft een hele steun. Het is immers duidelijk dat de hele geschiedenis der mensheid voor zover wij die kennen, de geschiedenis is van de overgang van nomadische levensvormen naar een al meer gezeten levenswijze. Volgt daar niet uit dat de meest gezeten levenswijze (de onze) tevens de meest volmaakte (de onze) is?
~ Jevgeni Zamjatin
I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.
~ Jewel
Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better" (Rhodes).
~ Jewell Parker Rhodes
You hope your seeds will take root and grow. So,
~ Jewell Parker Rhodes
The world turns. And it turns. And it moves and you don't. You're still here.
~ Jez Butterworth
You remind me of everything that followed.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
All tradition is merely the past.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti