Quotes About Progress

tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.

I wish wearing flat-irons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats, - more's the pity!

It's like the tide, Jo, when it turns it goes slowly--but it can't be stopped.

I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copy-books; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end, he said, dolefully.

and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.

There, I've done my best. If that wont do, I shall have to wait till I can do better.

Jo valued the letter more than the money, because it was encouraging, and after years of effort it was so pleasant to find that she had learned to do something…

If every one agreed, we should never get on.

I make so many beginnings there never will be an end

I think that woman can do a great deal for each other if they will only stop fearing what 'people will think' and take a hearty interest in whatever is going to fit their sisters and themselves to deserve and enjoy the rights God gave them. There are so many ways in which this can be done that I wonder they don't see and improve them.

It's my dreadful temper! I try to cure it, I think I have, and then it breaks out worse than ever.

take up your little burdens again, for though they seem heavy sometimes, they are good for us, and lighten as we learn to carry them.

Well, I won't, but I hate to see things going all crisscross and getting snarled up, when a pull here and a snip there would straighten it out. I wish wearing flatirons on our heads would keep us from growing up. But buds will be roses, and kittens cats, more's the pity!

It dawned upon her gradually that the world was being picked to pieces, and put together on new and, according to the talkers, on infinitely better principles than before, that religion was in a fair way to be reasoned into nothingness, and intellect was to be the only God.

It's highly virtuous to say we'll be good, but we can't do it all at once, and it takes a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together before some of us even get our feet set in the right way

El deseo verdadero de cambiar supone tener media batalla ganada.

Now I am beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide.

Our burdens are here, our road is before us

now with new paint, added wings, well-kept lawn and

But buds will be roses, and kittens cats, more's the pity!

While we wait we may all work, so that these hard days need not be wasted.

Jo's angles are much softened, she has learned to carry herself with ease, if not grace.

A year seems very long to wait before I see them, but remind them that while we wait we may all work, so that these hard days need not be wasted.