Quotes About Progress

You are the only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life.

Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.

Goals help you channel your energy into action.

Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

To achieve something that you have never achieved before, you must become someone that you have never been before.

As Marcus Garvey would say, "Rise up you mighty people, onward and upward to victory.

peak-to-peek, conquering one peak and then peeking over the top to find another one to climb.

Each scene in a story is a battle, and the story entire is a war.

As Tara walked down the corner past the vacant lot that once was the unofficial refuge for kids on the street in Halifax, she realized just how far they had both travelled from that dark end of the street, just how far they had travelled from the front steps of Hell's Hotel.

Gemini....You revere scientists and shamans alike, providing them with what they need to do their good work for the enhancement of the realm." (Rob Brezsny)

Finally, who can say of a crude, ill-decorated pot that it represents the end stage of a craft in decline rather than the first faltering steps of a new industry, or the fumbling of an apprentice in a mature stage of an established one, or even the blunder of a highly competent craftsman with a hangover?

The middle of life has these cul-de-sac days. In your twenties you think, Surely I am going somewhere, and later--as in now--you think, Nope.

Until we weren't.

They are afraid, Tayo. They feel something happening, they can see something happening around them, and it scares them. Indians or Mexicans or whites—most people are afraid of change. They think that if their children have the same color of skin, the same color of eyes, that nothing is changing." She laughed softly. "They are fools. They blame us, the ones who look different. That way they don't have to think about what has happened inside themselves.

Lucy Stone wasn't usually a clock watcher. Time didn't pass slowly for her; it galloped ahead of her.

It's only natural," said Phyllis. "Lord Grantham certainly wasn't very excited about Matthew's newfangled ideas for the estate.

Am I turning my back on myself, by getting ahead of myself?

Any movement toward solution gathers energy; any movement away from solution depletes energy. Act accordingly.

Convert limitations into limits; limits into boundaries; boundaries into borders; and borders into passageways.

Everything leads somewhere and therefore can lead you out of anywhere.

Pursue excellence rather than fame -- it will get you farther faster, and will be way more satisfying.

Who we are and who we are becoming is formed as much, if not more, by our unique way of responding.

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.