Quotes About Progress

When you know better, you do better." —Maya Angelou

Who you're meant to be evolves from where you are right now. So learning to appreciate your lessons, mistakes, and setbacks as stepping-stones to the future is a clear sign you're moving in the right direction.

Immer wenn sie nachgeben, geht ihnen Stärke verloren, und die Angst gewinnt Stärke hinzu. Auch wenn der Weg, der vor Ihnen liegt, n och so beschwerlich zu sein scheint, müssen Sie sich dazu durchringen, die Angst beiseite zu schieben und vorwärts zu gehen.

Hidup adalah soal pertumbuhan dan perubahan, dan ketika Anda tidak lagi melakukan salah satunya, Anda telah menerima bisikan pertama.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Step out of the history that is holding you back, Step into the new story you are willing to create.

Torne-se a mudança que quer ver no mundo - esse é o meu lema de vida. Em vez de depreciar, edifique. Em vez de demolir, construa. Em vez de enganar, ilumine o caminho para que todos possamos chegar mais longe.

Who you're meant to evolve from where you are right now.

Hidup Anda bukanlah sebuah terobosan besar. Hidup adalah soal setiap kali mengambil satu langkah yang mengubah hidup.

Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere

Bueno, nos hemos bajado del caballo y nos montamos en el burro. ¡Que sea para bien!

Although everyone knew it as freedom from the laws of Islam, no one was quite sure what else westernization was good for.

Read them, read and learn, because there's so much to do, you know.

Mevlut used to toil on foot through mud and rain, up and down these very same streets, and now here they were slipping right through with ease. Life, too, slipped by in much the same way, speeding up as it ran along the tracks laid out by time and fortune.

But as nothing, western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to westernize amounted mostly to the erasure of the past; the effect on culture was reductive and stunting, leading families like mine, otherwise glad of republican progress, to furnish their houses like museums.

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The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.

Nothing is more foolish, nothing more wicked than to drag the skeletons of the past, the hideous images, the foolish deeds, the unfortunate experiences of yesterday into today's work to mar and spoil it. There are plenty of people who have been failures up to the present moment who could do wonders in the future if they only could forget the past, if they only had the ability to cut it off, to close the door on it forever and start anew.

The most of us make our backs ache carrying useless, foolish burdens. We carry luggage and rubbish that are of no earthly use, but which sap our strength and keep us jaded and tired to no purpose. If we could only learn to hold on to the things worthwhile, and drop the rubbish, — let go the useless, the foolish, the silly, the hamperers, the things that hinder, — we should not only make progress but we should keep happy and harmonious.

It is not so much a question of how far you have traveled as which way you face. It is facing life the right way, with .the right spirit, that will push you forward.

What," I said, "in your estimation, is the greatest good a man can do?" 'The greatest good he can do is to cultivate himself, develop his powers, in order that he may be of greater use to humanity.

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

Men who have done great things, made stepping stones of their failures. The disgrace is not in falling, but in not rising every time you fall.