Quotes About Progress

We march to victory or we march to defeat, but we go forward — only forward.

Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder.

Syrio says that every hurt is a lesson, and every lesson makes you better

But whether the new would follow the course which the old had followed, that he did not know, and now at last he was almost certain that he did not even desire that the cycle should be repeated. He suddenly thought of all that had gone to build civilization--of slavery and conquest and war and oppression.

If I try for something less I may in the end attain something more

Every flight begins with a fall.

Different roads sometimes lead to the same castle.

A bruise is a lesson... and each lesson makes us better.

Keep walking. If I look back I am lost.

Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.

The past remains the past. We can learn from it, but we cannot change it.

Schemes are like fruit, they require a certain ripening.

You are grown so very great now, yet the higher a man climbs the farther he has to fall.

To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.

I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.

No man can say with certainty what the future may hold. But perhaps, in knowing what has already transpired, we can all do our part to avoid the mistakes of our forebears, to emulate their successes, and to create a world more harmonious for our children and their children, for generations to come.

I have climbed these steps so often I know each one by name.

IT IS SAID with truth that every building is constructed stone by stone, and the same may be said of knowledge, extracted and compiled by many learned men, each of whom builds upon the works of those who preceded him. What one of them does not know is known to another, and little remains truly unknown if one seeks far enough.

The godswife thought her a child, but children grow, and children learn.

To go north, you must go south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward, you must go back. To touch the light, you must pass beneath the shadow.

times may change, but men do not.

No estoy volando, estoy cayendo! -Todo vuelo comienza con una caída.

We have won a battle, not a war

Though there are those who say it does not matter how a man begins, but only how he ends.