Quotes About Progress

The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it's really a wheel.

It has always been a blessed experience with me after an illness to feel that I was recovering.

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.

Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present.

like that legendary journey that begins with a single step, I had already embarked upon my first resentment. A petty one, but most resentments are. And one that for its smallness I felt obliged to repress.

I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well so-- what's next?

Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present. They're not about the future at all. The future is just the ultimate monster in the closet, the great unknown.

When Harriet was growing up, women were trying to immolate gender stereotypes. These days, you preserved the stereotype, the better not to correspond to it.

Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers.

The wiser a man is, it seems to me, the more vividly he can see the future as part of the evolving present. He doesn't break the flow of life, he directs it, hastens it, but preserves its continuity.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

The people who really matter in social affairs are neither those who wish to stop short like a mule, or leap from crag to crag like a mountain goat.

All achievement should be measured in human happiness.

Run against the grain of a nation's genius and see where you get with your laws.

No way through but through...Do the next thing, Gabriella, and then the next, and then the next.

Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.

But you'll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.

You'll never get a new ending if you keep starting with the same tired beginning.

It's a good idea when you believe you're running toward something. But it can get awfully complicated when you're running from something.

And you couldn't be anywhere at all without having been almost there for a while.

You couldn't get where you were going without knowing where you'd been. And you couldn't be anywhere at all without having been almost there for a while.

You can't get where you're going without being where you've been.