Quotes About Progress

Life must be lived forwards, but can only be understood backwards.

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards

Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?

Old beliefs do not lead you to new cheese

Some people never change and they pay a price for it.

Take full responsibility for your life, move forward in the direction of your dreams

Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.

My career has kind of taken on a life of its own.

Every path serves a purpose.

We change, but always at a cost: to win this you lose that.

Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing.

I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].

I'm just beginning to live the next chapter of my life. In other words, politics - being governor and president - is not the end of my life. It's a chapter.

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

I recognize the need for technology that enriches life while preserving our natural environment. My goal is to stimulate productivity, but use technology to redeem, not to destroy our environment.

I want to grow. I don't want to get stuck doing the same thing over and over and think I'm the best at it.

Each of us brings with him an element, more or less important, of the life of humanity to come.

There were never moments in your life when you actually saw something end, for whether you knew it or not something else was always flowering. Never a disappearance, always a transformation.

That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do.

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.