Quotes About Progress

A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.

I think the best people, the ones who have reached the highest plateaus as human beings, are those who have known a great deal of adversity and have dealt with it and then moved ahead.

Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You can't undo yesterday's journey.

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change is what makes life interesting.

Is time the wheel that turns, or the track it leaves behind?

You make no sense! You went somewhere to discover your place in history? How can that be? History is what is done and behind us."     He shook his head, slowly this time. "History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along." He smiled enigmatically. "The future is another kind of history.

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

Useless to worry until we find ourselves blocked. ... If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.

Drink up your false courage and move forward. It's the only direction a man can move in.

History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along.' He smiled enigmatically. 'The future is another kind of history.

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it.

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path.

You earn your future, Malta Vestrit." The bead-maker cocked her head at her. "What does tomorrow owe you?" "Tomorrow owes me?" Malta repeated in confusion. "Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that." Amber looked out to sea again. "And no less. Sometimes folk wish tomorrow did not pay them off so completely.

Be a man. Discover where you are now, and go on from there, making the best of things. Accept your life, and you might survive it. If you hold back from it, insisting this is not your life, not where you are meant to be, life will pass you by. You may not die from such foolishness, but you might as well be dead for all the good your life will do you or anyone else.

Yet, all things must pass, but especially time, and with the months and then the years, I came slowly to have a place in the scheme of things.

He lives day-to-day now, just as we do, fumbling forward down the path to the future.

Stop using every mistake you make as an excuse to fail completely.

there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that." Amber looked out to sea again. "And no less. Sometimes folk wish tomorrow did not pay them off so completely.

Changes were the essence of life; one should not dread change.

Why not break free now, and make Bingtown a place where folk begin anew, all men standing on an equal footing?" "And all women, too." She must be Sparse's daughter, thought Keffria. Even her voice echoed his in tone. Devouchet looked at her in surprise. "It was but a manner of speaking, Ekke," he said mildly. "A manner of speaking becomes a manner of thinking.

Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.

Useless to worry until we find ourselves blocked, Nighteyes pointed out. If it happens, then we must simply find a way around it. It may slow us down. But we will never get there at all if we stand still and worry.