Quotes About Progress

Many people have so much more potential than where they are right now.

Fix the problem,not the blame.

It's really hard to know what's a good idea when you're growing and these ideas don't hold still and neither do you.

Sometimes you have to jumpstart the world just to get it to be what even the world admits it should be

Changing the laws of a country is not the same as changing its hearts and minds.

We all have to go from not knowing to knowing. If you have shortcomings, I fully believe it's better to look them in the eye. Pretending otherwise gets you nowhere.

We always say we'll never get used to change, but then the change happens and we do.

If nothing changes, nothing changes. If you always do what you always did, then you'll always get what you always got. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, and every time expecting a different result.

You're supposed to make mistakes. You're just starting out. Mistakes are a good thing. They mean you were brave enough to try something hard.

That's the thing about life, Elliot thought. Whatever just happened, good or bad, it always moves on.

It's always 'something is lost, but something else is gained.

Life just rolls on, adjusting to whatever was subtracted.

No, the really tough bit is when you find yourself dropped on the other side, and you have to find a way for your life to go forward from there.

I think people are slow to believe in any kind of change." "That's 'cause nobody ever changes," she said. "Do you really believe that? Not ever?" "Well. Hardly ever. I guess you could be the exception to the rule." She still sounded as though she planned to wait and see, but it was marvelous progress all the same. It made my whole day.

I could try." "For your own sake. Yeah." "It's just . . . I've been like this for so long." August pulled in a deep breath. Sighed it out again. "Yeah, I imagine you have. But I'd still appreciate it if you'd let go of the idea that you constantly need to impress me." "I'll try." But he didn't sound too sure about his chances of succeeding. "Toast?

Sooner or later you have to recognize the old patterns. But even that wasn't enough, she now realized. It wasn't sufficient to simply watch them play out while thinking, Yes, indeed, that is my pattern, and then continue to do it that way all the same. No. Sooner or later you had to get up off your sorry butt and do a little better for yourself.

Human nature. After something works out, we forget the frustration of the steps we took in getting there.

It's like life has given you this huge challenge to make sure that what was running in your family stops with you and doesn't go on any more than it has.

Great tragedy brings great growth, Anton. It wakes us up. It makes us into someone a little different from who we were before.

Part of resetting your life is accepting where you are in your life right now.

And I knew that my only way through this mass of simultaneous future outcomes was to hold tight to the idea that it was possible to get to OK from where we were now. Not assured. Just possible.

One, not to look up and see how far I still have to climb. Instead to look back and see how far I've climbed already. When I see what I just did, I know I can do what comes next. Given time. And, two, to give myself time.

you can't even begin to heal until it strikes you that something needs healing.

We take things on a little at a time because all at once they'd kill