Quotes About Progress

One step at a time,' he muttered to himself as he clambered up the slope. That was the only way to look at it. If you clenched your teeth hard enough, and took enough strides, you could get anywhere. One painful, weary, freezing, guilty step at a time.

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person? You have to be realistic.

If you clenched your teeth hard enough, and took enough strides, you could get anywhere. One painful, weary, freezing, guilty step at a time.

No one cares about the past any more,' he whispered. 'They don't see that you can't have a future without a past.' How

seconds she had changed, already I no longer

Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

The chauffeuses . . . were manifestly ladies of the new school . . . not sitting in balconies, gazing at sympathetic stars and longing for the hero to return. No, indeed, they were following him in a motor car.

To a large extent, then, the position of women and girls worsened in the early nineteenth century because the work of most of them did not change at a time when everything else was changing very rapidly. Those

At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.)

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

revisions based on readers' responses, however trying, make things better.

We already have all the facts and solutions. All we have to do is wake up and change.

I've discovered that in order to make big changes in the world, we have to begin at home -- within ourselves

We let our dreams take over. We stopped saying someday and started saying next year, next month, next week.

Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.

She was no longer who she used to be, and she wasn't yet whoever she was becoming.

There is a note of relief. They have somewhere to start, even if it is the worst place imaginable.

The fact that he had failed meant he had to continue to walk forward with his life history—his mistakes—slung over his shoulders like a heavy backpack. This fact exhausted him, but he was too tired to reject it.

He never would have reached this point, the middle, without her.

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead.

It were purely like a snowball and everybody gave it a push...

You cannot step over a mountain," she told me, "but if you step over pebble by pebble, you'll look back and the mountain will be behind you.

[In response to a question about her legacy:] How about, "She changed the economic future of Texas." And that really beats what I feared my tombstone was going to say, and that was, "She kept a really clean house."

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.