Quotes About Progress

We need to accept that we won't always make the right decisions, that we'll screw up royally sometimes–understanding that failure is not the opposite of success, it's part of success.

And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story.

The quest for knowledge may be pursued at higher speeds with smarter tools today, but wisdom is found no more readily than it was three thousand years ago in the court of King Solomon.

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I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin—real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life. —FR. ALFRED D'SOUZA

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.

Education is the transmission of civilization.

History is subject to geology.

Man, not earth, makes civilization.

Every advance in the complexity of the economy puts an added premium upon superior ability, and intensifies the concentration of wealth, responsibility and political power.

We have to ask ourselves why we are so focused on silent girly-girls in G-strings faking lust. This is not a sign of progress, it's a testament to what's still missing from our understanding of human sexuality with all its complexity and power. We are still so uneasy with the vicissitudes of sex we need to surround ourselves with caricatures of female hotness to safely conjure up the concept of 'sexy.' When you think about it, it's kind of pathetic.

if you are the exception that proves the rule, and the rule is that woman are inferior, you haven't made any progress.

nature starts many more projects than she can ever finish.

To the citizens of Israel, I say: we have passed difficult years, faced the most painful experiences and overcame them. The future lies before us. We are required to take difficult and controversial steps, but we must not miss the opportunity to try to achieve what we have wished for, for so many years: security, tranquillity and peace.

One of our greatest advantages as human beings is that as long as we are alive, we can change.

The rising sun holds promise and is nothing more than a new opportunity for growth and discovery. It's a new start and anything can happen during those hours." "And the setting sun?" "The setting sun allows us to take a deep breath and bask in all the growth we've done throughout the day.

Today things are better than yesterday.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day

The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.

If women are by barbarians reduced to the level of slaves, it is because barbarians themselves have never yet risen to the rank of men.