Quotes About Progress

saving" became nine-tenths of virtue and the growth

In America, we have always believed that if the day was a disappointment, we would win tomorrow. That's what John Lewis believed when he marched across this bridge.

No just cause is futile, even if it's lost, if it helps make the future better than the past.

But, as Winston Churchill observed, "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

as soon as it works, no one calls it AI anymore.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

People tend to forget the genuinely lousy level of officiating that was prevalent in professional tennis when I came along. That's why, with my parents' words echoing in my ears—tell the truth; be honest at any cost—I felt I was (don't laugh) on a kind of quest to get things to improve.

What I didn't realize was this: It's never possible to be prepared when the future takes over from the past.

A piece of writing has to start somewhere, go somewhere, and sit down when it gets there.

In six thousand years, you could never grow wings on a reptile. With sixty million, however, you could have feathers, too.

It doesn't matter that something you've done before worked out well. Your last piece is never going to write your next one for you.

She spent seventy-seven dollars at Wayfair on a framed quote attributed to Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Satisfaction was not to be gained from finishing the task; satisfaction was to be gained from the process.

quote attributed to Socrates: The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

I think the best way to deal with grief is to just keep going. To keep living your life, even though it's different now.

We're all just trying to find our way

The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Lizbet is so busy that hours and even days go by when she forgets to be on the lookout for Shelly Carpenter.

The most amazing aspect of life, Beth thought, was the way that time passed—the days, the months, one following the next without slowing down or stopping for tragedy or triumph.

Phones," he says to Andrea. "They'll be the death of civilization.

where a person comes from means far less than what she makes of herself.

and asks how the hotel is coming along, Lizbet changes the subject to Sharon's children. (Sharon has no interest in talking about her children; they've just become teenagers.)

All your energy. Not on fighting the old. But on building the new. The secret of change.