Quotes About Progress

The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. Oliver Wendell Holmes

People make changes in their life, and they blend and assimilate. They find a way to make it work. That's where I've always taken the wrong turn. By not taking a turn at all.

Nostalgia for what? Nostalgia is when you want things to stay as they were. I know so many people who stay in the same place. And I think, my God, look at them! They're dead before they die. Living is risking.

To live is to change, and to change often is to become more perfect.

Frances maintained they took care of each other and claimed "I owe my greatest success to women. Contrary to the assertion that women do all in their power to hinder one another's progress, I have found that it has always been one of my own sex who has given me a helping hand when I needed it.

We all have the ability to adjust our course towards a more better direction. Choosing to do so is less painful than being forced to. Moving toward a destination that is beneficial to ourselves and others could be worth the effort. Know Yer Loved, CWD

You never change things by fighting the existing reality,

To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie.

However, we must not forget that it will be some twenty years before the ordinary run of people begin to think the thoughts of the educated person of today.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

For better to come, good must stand aside.

Psychological or spiritual development always requires a greater capacity for anxiety and ambiguity.

Life calls, not for perfection, but for completeness.

what you resist not only persists, but will grow in size.

Each is deceived by the sense of finality peculiar to the stage of development at which he stands.

Our biggest problems cannot be resolved. They must be outgrown.

We don't so much solve our problems as we outgrow them.

one form of life cannot simply be abandon unless it is exchanged for another

one form of life cannot simply be abandoned unless it is exchanged for another

Blind acceptance never leads to a solution; at best it leads only to a standstill and is paid for heavily in the next generation.

if you never make a decision, you can't make a mistake). It