Quotes About Progress

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths.

have never seen a case in which an individual made progress in bodybuilding without experiencing an accompanying boost in self-esteem, self-confidence, and enjoyment of life.

Concentrate on being useful, rather than how do I feel today, otherwise the world is not going to change.

We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves.

A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.

History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

Alle waarheid deed pijn, maar wel steeds meer, elk jaar een beetje meer.

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.

Seen from this perspective, our unstable environment is the essential wellspring of human evolution and change, and the more serious our environmental problems become, the more creatively we are responding to the challenge.

Grace, combined with insight and choice, is the means of change."32

Just as a good chief executive officer keeps looking for ways to change because he or she knows that nothing will be the same in five years, so you, too, as the chief executive officer of your own life, must always be looking for better ways to make changes. You must be flexible enough to get around the new obstacles that are looming on the horizon, and you must be willing to change course if you have to.

Don't make the mistake of doing nothing. Standing still is not an acceptable option. You can be like a deer on the highway caught in the headlights--freezing in your tracks until life passes you by--or you can move. If you move, you increase the odds of living longer and better.

What I did was focus on what I had and no on what I didn't have. Through that focus, I was able to make more changes.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book ' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.

Remember, before you can be great, you've got to be good. Before you can be good, you've got to be bad. But before you can even be bad, you've got to try.

I do believe that humans are destined to be released for a more ennobling life

the change is at hand-the old order is cracking. It has been said that 'the cure for democracy is more democracy

Individual development depends upon mass-solution of the economic problems of everyday living. The inventors, thinkers, and the common man have made this world ripe for healthful leisure, and have created far more than enough goods for all. But through all this progress the business man has assumed the right to the lion's share while those who did the creating and hard work were compelled to fight for whatever they could get-or starve.

The American Negro must remake his past in order to make his future.

It's not necessarily that we were wrong then and right now. It's just that our knowledge is constantly growing, and along the way we sometimes have to unlearn what we thought was true.

Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.