Quotes About Progress

You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.

you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

Yes, yes," Gee Sook said. "Look how Jung stands like a man today.

The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change. What will happen then? I have the fear that something unexpected may occur.

We can't change the past but we can make any future that we want.

What is today? She'd lost track over the last few days. Pixii shrugged. First day after firing the kiln.

They think that the past is dead. They don't see that the past is just the beginning of the future.

If chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.

But in my heart I knew that just like the new grass, I wasn't strong enough yet to be walked on

We need better government, no doubt about it. But we also need better minds, better friendships, better marriages, better communities.

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that.

We haven't accepted we can't really believe that the most characteristic product of our age of scientific miracles is junk, but that is so. And we still think and behave as though we face an unspoiled continent, with thousands of acres of living space for every man. We still sing "America the Beautiful" as though we had not created in it, by strenuous effort, at great expense, and with dauntless self-praise, an unprecedented ugliness.

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

Political convulsions, like geological upheavings, usher in new epochs of the world's progress.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Revolutions are not made; they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

Revolutions are not made, they come.

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing press has done for the mind.

When I want to find the vanguard of the people I look to the uneasy dreams of an aristocracy and find what they dread most.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.