Quotes About Progress

I really hate it when a teacher has to show that she isn't behind the times by using some expression which sounds so up-to-date you know for sure she's behind the times.

You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.

If you never take a risk, you will never know what changes you need to make.

The roller coaster is my life; Life is a fast, dizzying game. Life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances; falling over and getting up again. It's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it. But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that good enough is very different from the Best.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.

And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.

All you have to do is to pay attention; lessons always arrive when you are ready, and if you can read the signs, you will learn everything you need to know in order to take the next step

There is only one way to learn. It's through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.

The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. -- The Alchemist

Sometimes life is very mean: a person can spend days, weeks, months and years without feeling new. Then, when a door opens - a positive avalanche pours in. One moment, you have nothing, the next, you have more than you can cope with.

Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.

Close some doors. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they no longer lead somewhere.

I've been through all this before,' he says to his heart. " 'Yes, you have been through all this before,' replies his heart. 'But you have never been beyond it.

Personal growth has its price, and she was paying it without complaint.

When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place.

If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.

Fortunate are those who take the first steps.

It isn't expectations that carry us forward, it's our desire to go on.

and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.

It's what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.