Quotes About Progress

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked his reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence. I cannot but conceive him calm and confident, little disappointed, not at all dejected, relying on his own great merit with steady consciousness, and waiting, without impatience, the vicissitudes of opinion, and the impartiality of a future generation.

All change is of itself an evil, which ought not to be hazarded but for evident advantage; and

This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.

This earl, like certain vegetables, did bud and open slowly; nature sometimes delighting to play an aftergame, as well as fortune, which had both their turns and tides in

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curiosity, or by a restless desire to arrive at the final solution; but by the pleasurable activity of mind excited by the attractions of the journey itself.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

On Pilgrim's Progress: "I could not have believed beforehand that Calvinism could be painted in such exquisitely delightful colors.

Our society celebrates nothing more than the overcoming of limitation – in sport, in science, in communications, in health. Every invention, every new world record, every new gadget is a sacrament of the deepest human desire of our age – to become free by transcending limitation, and thus, for a moment, believing we can withstand even death.

You must allow yourself a few small failures and develop a capacity to forgive yourself when you make a mistake.

From that she went directly into two minutes

Today's troubles is past now. Tomorrow will be better.

have cost precious time. He'd kept moving. It was insufferably hot and sultry. Sweat had

stopped smoking

Hennie replies to, How are you doing? 'I'm deteriorating at a normal rate.

Nobody starts out a perfect quilter.

A word of explanation is necessary to those who fear setting up a schedule because it feels rigid and stifling. Scheduling is not an inflexible list that is written in stone. It is a statement of what regular tasks are important to accomplish each day and when you plan to do them during the day. As you become experienced in using and tweaking your schedule, you will find it meets your needs more and more successfully and will become your friend. (pp. 163-164).

All great works start with mistake. Ain't no exception in this fact.

When you face writer's block, just lower your standards and keep going.

Out of the pain, something new is growing.