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Quotes About Progress

Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting.... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Every human life had its pattern that had to be worked out slowly to its ultimate conclusion.
~ Irving Stone
Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters.
~ Jimmy Connors
Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.
~ Joanne Harris
The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.
~ Joel Stein
Without death and decay, how could life go on?
~ John Burroughs
We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.
~ John Dewey
In the old days, you became an adult when suddenly your life went from learning to doing the same thing for the rest of your life, but today you can't afford to do that.
~ Joichi Ito
All our inventions have endowed material forces with intellectual life, and degraded human life into a material force.
~ Karl Marx
Nothing in life is static; it either gets better, or it gets worse.
~ Lloyd Dobyns
Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking.
~ Louise Erickson
As far as I'm concerned, the happiest time of my life is now. There's a future and I can't wait to get to it.
~ Marilyn
Sometimes in life, we reach to a right place by departing from a wrong port with a wrong ship!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The purpose of life is to pass the frontiers! Attack the frontiers to go beyond them with the determination of a bull attacking the red colour!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Life is like dancing...changing all the time.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.
~ Peter F. Hamilton
[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
That is one of the great secrets of life, that life is a movement. And if you are stuck somewhere you lose contact with life.
~ Rajneesh
The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.
~ Richard Paul Evans
the reason for revolution is so the good things in life circulate.
~ Rita Mae Brown
If you are born black, it is better to be born now than in any other time in United States history. My grandson is black. His life is a different life than if he had been born when I was born.
~ Russell Banks
Sustainable development is a process which enables all people to realise their potential and to improve their quality of life in ways which protect and enhance the Earth's life support systems
~ Sara Parkin