Quotes About Progress

Men desire novelty to such an extent that those who are doing well wish for a change as much as those who are doing badly.

The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.

We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.

The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

What happens to what's happened?

There's no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

Meg took a batch of forks from the drawer and turned them over and over, looking at them. "I'm all confused again." "Oh, so 'm I," Calvin said gaily. "But now at least I know we're going somewhere.

Oh, my darling you are not dumb, her father answered. You're like Charles Wallace. Your development has to go at its own pace. It just doesn't happen to be the usual pace.

I don't know. We don't have to know everything at once. We just do one thing at a time, as it is given us to do.

No. You can't go back to Patrick. It's possible that you can go forward to him, but only you can know that. If you tried to go back then you'd only have to leave all over again. Nothing can ever be repeated. Ever.

It is only when we are fully rooted that we are really able to move.

Yesterday's heresy becomes tomorrow's dogma," the bishop replied mildly, and Polly thought once again of Giordano Bruno.

You waste your energy going up and down instead of going forward.' She continued to walk calmly beside Felix.

We are never satisfied with what we have done. We know that our best is never adequate. If I had to be satisfied with what I have written I'd still be on my first novel. But I wrote what was for me the best book I could write at that moment in time.

But she was one of those people who change very little between twenty and sixty. Instead of growing and developing into whatever kind of creatures they are, slowly and consistently, they have three periods of their lives, with sharp lines of demarcation between them: they are children, then grownups, then old men and women. Suddenly

We tend, today, to want to have a road map of exactly where we are going. We want to know whether or not we have succeeded in everything we do. It's all right to want to know—we wouldn't be human if we didn't—but we also have to understand that a lot of the time we aren't going to know.

They've never known a time when people drank rain water because it was pure, or could eat snow, or swim in any river or brook. The last time I drove to Washington the traffic was so bad that I could have made better time with a horse.

Eve showed Aidan how to rake the range. "I think when we're married we might have something more modern," he grumbled. "No, surely with the eight children we can have them stoking it, going up the chimney even.

No point in destroying Wednesday thinking about Friday. This one-day-at-a-time thing really worked. Friday