Quotes About Progress

You were right," he said faintly. "Change is good-or at least necessary. Take the shard.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.

Keep writing. It doesn't have to be anything fancy. Put some words on paper. You never know what will happen.

Nothing resembles today so much as tomorrow.

In the world there are only two ways of raising one's self, either by one's own industry or by the weakness of others.

There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others.

How many men are like trees, already strong and full grown, which are transplanted into some gardens, to the astonishment of those people who behold them in these fine spots, where they never saw them grow, and who neither know their beginning nor their progress!

There are but two ways of rising in the world, either by your own industry or by the folly of others.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

Bourgeois are by nature people who hate and destroy heavens. When they see a beautiful site, they have no more pressing dream than to cut the trees, dry up the springs, build streets, shops and urinals. They call this ceasing a business opportunity.

I refuse to tell myself that all the work of the past has been worthless, and that everything remains to be done. No, much has been done, and you have no right to deny it to yourselves and to disavow those efforts today.

Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That's OK. Don't give up.

History often has a difficult time catching up to the events it records.

Násilí se nikomu nevyplácí. S tím se m?že vysta?it jen krátkou dobu, ale d?jiny se jím psát nedají. žijeme v civilizovaném sv?t?, v Evrop?, ve dvacátém století

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.

Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything -- or nothing.

It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapidly in every other respect than in morality.

Našao je zemlju izlaze?eg sunca pa je pšeni?no zrno, koje je neplodno, bacakano vetrom, najzad naišlo na grudu zemlje koja ?e ga primiti da uhvati koren i da se razvije.

I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.

What I do, Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be.

Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion--it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.