Quotes About Progress

Your destiny is constantly changing according to your actions.

Your destiny was billions of years in the making.

There was no stopping us now. We had running water, a heater, a cooker and a road. We were fast becoming slaves again to all the things we had come to this benighted spot to flee.

Every day, a person should learn something, experience something, do something that left them changed, even in a small way.

I did not yet know that not to feel is never a step forward, scarcely a relief.

The world is awakening to a powerful truth: Women and girls aren't the problem; they're the solution.

But that is how one learns, is it not? By trying and failing?

Cooperation was possible; he'd seen it. Every individual was unique—and could grow.

Remember…you always have a choice to be better. You always have a choice to pick the right path --- Even if that choice comes a little late.

Few do, at first. A small step, the one that determines destiny often is.

The future is not like a book one can read," he said quietly. "It is ever changing, like the rush of water, or the swirl of sand.

The years came and went, and gave their blessings, and demanded their sacrifices.

Wishes do not a world make. We do the best we can where we are, every minute, every breath. We make mistakes, and we have to live with them. We try to learn from them. And that is all we can do.

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

They hit a pothole deep enough to make her teeth snap together, and she burst out, This road reminds me of my life. It's going somewhere familiar, but every time I look up, there's a new obstacle to jump, another hole to fall in.

Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.

If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.

If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even in this worldly life, and indeed have worked for your betterment.

We never can just stop time. Or take moments back. Life doesn't work that way, does it?

You can't go back; I can't go back either, but we can go on.

Years ago women were nothing, Eloisa. They had no rights. They couldn't own property. They were property. That changed because it wasn't right. Children were beaten regularly by parents. That changed because it wasn't right. Just because something is tradition, handed down from one generation to the next, doesn't make it right.

How do you know you're not a vampire?" She needed to distract him, distract both of them. "Maybe you forgot. You're certainly capable of acting like one." This time he laughed, startling both of them. The sound was husky, low, and foreign to his ears, as if he had forgotten what it was like. His black eyes leapt to her face almost in fear. "Not bad, wild man. First a growl, and now a laugh. We're making progress.

Disorder keeps increasing if things are left to themselves.

First, we were throwing threats like gang signs. Now, we're back to talking normally.