Quotes About Progress

We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?

It was not a happy ending but a happy middle--at last, after so many fraught beginnings.

We can't expect the world to be better than we make it.

An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.

It wasn't even an alternate version of his life. He hadn't gone back in time and done everything differently to get to this place. It turned out that sometimes it's enough to start doing things differently now.

N)ew dreams sprout up when old ones come true, like seedlings in a forest: a new generation of wishes.

And the space where his legend was gathering up words grew larger. Because this story was not over yet.

To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.

Las cosas cambian. Pueden cambiarlas quienes tienen voluntad de hacerlo.

But just because the past is blood doesn't mean the future must be, too.

War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can invent them. This is the beginning, here.

Let us leave the past, shall we? The present give us more than enough to talk about, and then, of course, there is the future.

Some, and then more.

There is always part of us admits we are done when the rest of us is not yet ready.

Maturity is betterment of the existing state.

Invest in yourself now and reap the dividends day after day after month after year.

Stop growing and you're in the casket.

Whatever you can handle, it's up to you. Pick something where you are going to do it to failure--in other words, where you can hardly do it. That's the key. So many people will just take five pound weights and do something 10 times. What are they getting out of it? Nothing! Say you are going to build up your bank account. If you put in a penny a day, it's going take a long while. It's the same with exercise--the more you put into it the more you take out.

Virtually everything we do in life is a matter of habit. Habits make us who we are. Why not change your habits to better your life?

One thing always sure. Life go on with you or without you, no matter how much you seen.

We need education, not bullets. That the only way we win. Not all these white men bad. We got to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. That the only way progress last.

In freedom, most agree, every step forward has always been accompanied by a step back.

He, who can create, abhors destruction.