Quotes About Progress

Oh, ye of little faith," he said cheerfully. "I'm just getting started.

And with that, my mother was off and running. Hard to believe that once schmoozing was as painful to her as multiple root canals. But when you had to do something, you had to do it. And eventually, if you were lucky, you did it well

I'd spent so many months feeling like I was underwater, half in dreamland with those mermaids, hearing all the voices from up above. And since I'd been at Evergreen I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

Good be- gets bad, something lost leads to found...

I deserved to grow, and to change, to become all the girls I could ever be over the course of my life, each one better than the last.

She was dressing for the life she wanted, not the one she had.

Practice does not make perfect. Practice makes permanent. Repeat the same mistakes over and over, and you don't get any closer to Carnegie Hall.

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

The trouble with setting goals is that you're constantly working toward what you used to want.

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

Just as night always turns into day, there will always be endings that turn into new beginnings

Sarah Mlynowski

Successful people always have their next goal in mind.   Goals are dreams with deadlines.

My words were either going to be fertilizer to my growing dream, or they would poison it.

The drag queens who started Stonewall are no better off today, but they made the world safe for gay Republicans. It's a bitter pill to swallow, but the people who make change are not the people who benefit from it

Let us thank God for having given us such ancestors; and let each successive generation thank Him, not less fervently, for being one step further from them in the march of ages.

I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity's unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.

the amateur historian's next stop after Boy, people used to be so stupid is People: still stupid.

On October 1, Lafayette mailed Adrienne a bubbly update about the progress of his apparently adorable wound. "The surgeons are astonished by the rate at which it heals," he cooed. "They are in ecstasy every time they dress it, and maintain that it is the most beautiful thing in the world.

we all still bask in the glow and the warmth of Mr. Franklin's rising sun." Sounds good.

Wall Comes Down, No Big Whoop.

As I recall, the cover of Time the week the Wall fell read, "Wall Comes Down, No Big Whoop.

If you want things to be different, you have to start by changing yourself.

If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten.