Quotes About Progress

Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity

I grasped two things: I wasn't as happy as I could be, and my life wasnt going to change unless I made it change.

You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

Health is the core of human development.

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I've got a nickle in my pocket.

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.

Human animal is considered the most valuable animal to enforce/ensure each others growth

What I call stupidity is not only lack of knowledge, although much of humanity could be elevated from poverty, dogma, illusions and war through traditional education. A thriving education system is the foundation for progress. But stupidity is not merely ignorance; it can also be a way of acting. If you act contrary to your own goals in life – you're stupid.

Letting go of the past does not mean that we should try to forget everything that has happened to us and not learn anything from our previous thinking patterns and actions. Letting go simply means that we do not allow the past to control our current thoughts and actions.

The upside of approaching spiritual practices like an experiment is that there can be no failure, only different outcomes. Whatever happens, you will learn about yourself and your relationship with the divine along the way.

While having information is a crucial first step, more information isn´t necessarily better. Take a look at your bookshelves and the list of seminars you have attended. If you have read more than one book about a subject or attended more than one seminar but still haven't reached your goals, then your problem is not lack of information but rather lack of implementation.

I say we make our voices heard. For us, for our kids, I say that it is time to figure out a new approach to spirituality, one that honors rationality.

Success is not attained when the goal is reached; success is attained from the time when the first step is taken towards that goal.

One myth that has become established in the self-development arena is that it only takes 21 days to form a new habit. This simply isn't true in all cases. Sometimes it takes a shorter time, sometimes a longer time, and sometimes old habits are so hard to break that new ones never take hold.

Without action, we can relegate ideas about social harmony and bridge-building to the realm of wishful thinking.

O mouths humanity seeks a new language Beyond the reach of grammarians.

Il tempo è come le pagine di un libro: nel momento in cui legge la pagina 66, le pagine 67 e 68 sono già scritte.

if you are humble, you are capable of learning – and the capacity to learn is the capacity to improve.

Si nos levantamos pronto, pero muy pronto, y sin reproches, y nos ponemos a trabajar, somos un país imparable».

I can see that he is capable of doing it because he has made a great deal of decisions in a short space of time.