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Quotes About Progress

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.
~ Imre Kertesz
We women don't care too much about getting our pictures on money as long as we can get our hands on it.
~ Ivy Baker Priest
Not everyone, the Collector was aware, is improved by the job he does in life; some people are visibly disimproved.
~ J. G. Farrell
Our civilization is first and foremost a civilization of means; in the reality of modern life, the means, it would seem, are more important than the ends.
~ Jacques Ellul
If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.
~ James A. Baldwin
New conditions of life will stimulate thought and give new forms to its expression.
~ James Russell Lowell
The blessing which we associate with a life of refinement and cultivation can be made universal and must be made universal if they are to be permanent.
~ Jane Addams
Life's picking up speed.
~ Jeff Bridges
How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.
~ Jennifer Michael Hecht
As with anything you set out to learn in life, you don't get from point A to point Z without touching upon all those letters in between.
~ Jill Whalen
Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.
~ John Barth
We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.
~ John Burroughs
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED
~ William Rathbone Greg
As a character, it's very interesting to play someone who wants to change their life and have him change it.
~ Winona Ryder
Just when you think it can't get no better, then it does.
~ John Hartford
Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.
~ John Irving
I'm having the time of my life figuring out this next move.
~ John Mayer
The primary goal of spiritual life is human transformation.
~ John Ortberg
You can't get fit in one workout, just as you can't live your life in one day.
~ Johnny G
If we hope to go anywhere or develop ourselves in any way, we can only step from where we are standing. If we don't really know where we are standing... We may only go in circles.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it.
~ Joyce Meyer
Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?
~ Julian Barnes
New tech almost always looks dumb right before it completely changes your life.
~ Julian Smith
The days passed, as they do, and life went on.
~ Kevin Brooks