Quotes About Progress

Here's what I've learned: When you stand at the lip of something, you're already there.

If people could unfuck, they'd do it every day.

The mistakes don't matter. It's what you do when you mess up that does.

Even in the difficult circumstances when we were healing the war wounds and promoting the socialist revolution and construction, we introduced universal free compulsory education step by step, combined school education with social education and developed the study-while-you-work system so that all the younger generation and working people could receive education at state expense.

They had a longing to move up and out, to be something bigger than they were born to.

There are no wasted steps in a God-directed journey.

When we let accidents teach us things that help us make better decisions down the road, then somethin' good comes out o' the mistake.

After two months passed and they were still finding holes, the company canceled the testing and just shipped the kiosks out. O

Writing one page a day equals a 365 page novel in a year.

Then I did what I should have done to start with. I taught myself to walk.

After that it was easy. It was the most impossible thing I'd ever done, but it was also easy. I held on to Jamie, and I kept moving forward.

One step, I thought. One step at a time.

What did or didn't happen last year is less a product of a lack of discipline and willpower, and more a product of the resources - internal and external - that you are still developing.

If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you dodn't start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!

The world gels better every day -- then worse again in the evening.

The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel'? Or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood, which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony.

Under the auspices of peace, our comprehensive renaissance will be built, and it will be a model for those who wish to emulate it in the greater Arab homeland.

We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.

Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.