Quotes About Progress

It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.

There is never a day in any mans life when repentance is not essential to his well being in eternal progress.

Every second a seeker can start over, For his life's mistakes Are initial drafts And not the final version.

What gives life its value if not its constant cry for self-transcendence?

This is the single most powerful investment we can ever make in life—investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.

Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.

Life begins when we begin and each day we ought to be born again.

Click. Boom. Amazing!

As life speeds by, nostalgia has a shorter pregnancy. Games still in progress are given the straight-to-sepia status of "Instant Classics" no matter how oxymoronic that phrase appears.

Everything that has a computer in will fail. Everything in your life, from a watch to a car to a radio, to an iPhone, it will fail if it have a computer in it.

The basic rules of life would indicate that it can't last forever, and we'll fall off of the wave and have to climb onto another, but I don't think about it too much. We just keep moving.

I think you go through different phases when you do albums, and I think that they change according to where you are in your life and what you're inspired by at the moment.

Change and renewal are themes in life, arent they? We keep growing throughout life.

Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth.

There is no life higher than the grasstops

I've composed all my life and kept things, and even developed things I've done in college into something now.

Life doesn't happen in chapters - at least, not regular ones.

If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.

A man deserves credit when he accomplishes something of importance. Something that provides for the betterment of his life and his family's life and, whenever possible, mankind.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.