Quotes About Progress

It is wishful thinking to expect change without factoring in a few failures along the way.

you become so good at doing something that it prevents you from ever doing anything new.

Every failure is a learning experience and it should be seen as part of the process rather than the enemy.

I, too, live in the time of slavery, by which I mean I am living in the future created by it.

If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind.

Start by doing what's necessary then do what's possible and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Start by doing what is necessary, then do what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Christians are not born but made.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

our future depends on our actions as a species.

If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.

Of course, we all go through our own experiences. If we do not push ourselves enough, we do not grow, but if we push ourselves too much, we regress. What is enough will change, depending on where we are and what we are doing. In that sense, the present moment is always some kind of beginning.

Happiness Begin with Success

In any moving forward, there is always a leaving behind.

The changes I describe in this book are not about the triumph of women over men, Western values over Eastern, or one religion over another. They're aimed at solving the world's most intractable problems - poverty, conflict, and violence.

Therapy helped, but it is not magic. It does not change our thoughts or behaviours. It only teaches us what they might be. It does not work unless we take from it what we have learned and put it into action.

If we go on behaving in the same way, we will crash. If we pretend that those obstacles in our character don't exist, or are something else entirely, we will still crash. But if we acknowledge them and behave in a different way, we will come to a better and safer place.

If our minds can hold us back, then they can push us forwards too.

we'd had to walk alongside construction tape that kept us out

The Marquis looked very grave and replied, 'I knew, of course, the minute whalebone corsets went out of fashion that things were coming to a pretty pass.

In another country where the buildings don't stop rising until they pinthe clouds to the sky.