Quotes About Progress

An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.

The constant tug between nature and civilization is what keeps on our toes. Though of course, that did rather beg the question of how you defined nature and how you defined civilization.

Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature.

For life goes not backward, nor tarries with yesterday.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer.

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Be content to progress in slow steps until you have legs to run and wings with which to fly.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

End of Construction - Thank you for your patience.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

Running well is a matter of having the patience to persevere when we are tired and not expecting instant results.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Don't look back—forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience—then alone can great deeds be accomplished.

Have patience to walk with short steps until you have wings to fly.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

You must let life flow naturally, for life's secret is patience; you must stop pushing for change and allow things to unfold.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.