Quotes About Progress

Don't wish it was easier. Wish you were better.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

We learn from history that we do not learn from history

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

The world is made of stairs, and there are those who go up and those who go down.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it.

Don't stumble over something behind you.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself.

Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

I have been lucky in that I've been alive at times when the things that I wanted to do were capable of being done.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.