Quotes About Progress

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

The journey with a 1000 miles begins with one step.

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up...

Think of tomorrow, the past can't be mended.

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills.

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.

The Master said, The case is like that of someone raising a mound. If he stops working, the fact that it perhaps needed only one more basketful makes no difference; I stay where I am. Whereas even if he has not got beyond leveling the ground, but is still at work, the fact that he has only tilted one basketful of earth makes no difference. I go to help him.

Study the past to define the future

It doesn't matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop

Give me a few more years so that I am studying at fifty, and surely I may avoid major errors.

It doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you don't stop.

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.

It doesn't matter how slowly you go so long as you don't stop.

The Master said, Study as though you could never catch up, [and if you did,] you would still be fearful of losing it.

A Journey of a thousand miles becomes with a single step.

To know what is first and what is last will lead near to what is taught in the Great Learning.

It is a temporal universal that people never appreciate their own time, especially transportation. Twentieth-Century contemps complained about cancelled flights and gasoline prices, Eighteenth-Century contemps complained about muddy roads and highwaymen. No doubt Professor Peddick's Greeks complained about recalcitrant horses and chariot wheels falling off.

You could be the ugliest, nastiest most miserable piece of shit known to man, but if you had a beating heart there was always a chance you'd turn into a diamond after a million years.

There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history or nothing happens.

There comes a time when time itself is ready for a change.

In any generation, even the most revolutionary, the arrangements which are enjoyed always far exceed those which are recognized to stand in need of attention, and those which are being prepared for enjoyment are few in comparison with those which receive amendment: the new is an insignificant proportion of the whole.

In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.

It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.