Quotes About Progress

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

We are gods in the chrysalis.

the great aim of education,' said Herbert Spencer, 'is not knowledge but action.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

The world owes its progress to the men who have dared

When we attempt to use criticism to win an argument, to make a point, or to incite change, we are taking two steps backward.

For "the great aim of education," said Herbert Spencer, "is not knowledge but action." And

Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favour of it. But why not begin on yourself?

You are one in seven billion—your progress is not meant for you alone.

Isn't it profound the influence one is afforded—even the smallest among us—when affirmation comes clean off our tongue and clear from our hearts? All great progress and problem solving with others begins when at least one party is willing to place what is already good on the table. From there it is much easier to know where to begin and how to lead the interaction to a mutually beneficial end.

If you are satisfied with the results you are now getting, why change? If you are not satisfied, why not experiment?

When we stop fighting the inevitable," said Elsie MacCormick in a Reader's Digest article, "we release energy which enables us to create a richer life.

Remember that successful action is cumulative in its results. Since the desire for more life is inherent in all things, when a man begins to move toward larger life more things attach themselves to him, and the influence of his desire is multiplied.

To leave the road of continual failure, a person must first utter the three most difficult words to say: 'I was wrong.

gran objetivo de la educación -dijo Herbert Spencer no es el conocimiento, sino la acción.

way to get things done," says Schwab, "is to stimulate competition.

One grain of sand at a time. One task at a time.

Yet, during these broken and irregular periods, he had developed one of the most valuable assets any man can have, even from a university education: a love of knowledge and a thirst for learning.

From that day to this, I have made it a rule to throw into the wastebasket all the problems that I can no longer do anything about.

Of course, you can't saw sawdust!" Mr Shedd exclaimed. "It's already sawed! And it's the same with the past. When you start worrying about things that are over and done with, you're merely trying to saw sawdust.

It was no longer necessary to react the way we used to. The children were doing far more right things than wrong ones." All of this was a result of praising the slightest improvement in the children rather than condemning everything they did wrong. This works on the job too. Keith Roper of

Let's keep a record of the fool things we have done and criticize ourselves. Since we can't hope to be perfect, let's do what E.H. Little did: let's ask for unbiased, helpful, constructive criticism.

but in the beginning, she was—well, susceptible to improvement.

In all things purely social we can be as separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.