Quotes About Progress

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

One must fight to get to the top, especially if one starts at the bottom.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back.

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit.

They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives...

It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards.

Yet even if I manage that, one single slip, and a slip cannot be avoided, will stop the whole process, easy and painful alike, and I will have to shrink back into my own circle again.

Every new discovery is assumed at once into the sum total of knowledge, and with that ceases in a sense to be a discovery; it dissolves into the whole and disappears, and one must have a trained scientific eye even to recognize it after that.

All the people who try to torment me, and who have now occupied the entire space around me, will quite gradually be thrust back by the beneficent passage of these days, without my having to help them even in the very least. And, as it will come about quite naturally, I can be weak and quiet and let everything happen to me, and yet everything must turn out well, through the sheer fact of the passing of days.

Düz bir yolda yürüyor olsayd?n, tüm ilerleme isteÄŸine raÄŸmen hala gerisin geriye gitseydin, o zaman bu çaresiz bir durum olurdu; ama sen dik, senin de aÅŸa??dan gördüÄŸün gibi dik bir yamac? t?rmand???na göre, ad?mlar?n?n geriye doÄŸru kaymas?, bulunduÄŸun yerin durumundan ileri gelebilir, o zaman da umutsuzluÄŸa kap?lmana gerek yoktur.

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

If you were walking across a plain, had an honest intention of walking on, and yet kept regressing, then it would be a desperate matter; but since you are scrambling up a cliff, about as steep as you yourself are if seen from below, the regression can only be caused by the nature of the ground, and you must not despair.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

So if you find nothing in the corridors open the doors, and if you find nothing behind these doors there are more floors, and if you find nothing up there, don't worry, just leap up another flight of stairs. As long as you don't stop climbing, the stairs won't end, under your climbing feet they will go on growing upwards

It is a long dark road from there to where I have really come

48 Belief in progress doesn't mean belief in progress that has already occurred. That would not require belief.

Atata timp cat nu incetezi s urci, treptele nu se vOr termina; sub pasii tai care urca, ele se vOr inmulti la nesfarsit

Und ich lernte meine Herren. Ach, man lernt, wenn man muß; man lernt, wenn man einen Ausweg will; man lernt rücksichtslos.

We don't all share one body, but we do share growth, and that leads us through all pain, whether in this form or that.

I just read, the letter, your essays, again ad again, convinced that such pros does not exist merely for its own sake, but serves as a signpost on the road to a human being, a road one keeps following, happier and happier, until arriving at the realization some bright moment that one is not progressing simply running around inside one's own labyrinth, only more nervously, more confused than before.

Por qué agotarse, pues, desde ya hasta el límite de las fuerzas? Ello tendría sentido si se pudiera esperar que la torre fuera construida en el lapso de una generación.

Mientras no dejes de subir no tienen término los escalones; bajo tus pies que ascienden, crecen ellos hacia lo alto.

Se, joka uskoo kehitykseen, ei tarkoita samaa kuin uskoisi kehitykseen, joka on jo tapahtunut. Se ei vaadi uskoa.