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Quotes About Progress

He that never changes his opinions and never corrects his mistakes will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
~ Tyron Edwards
The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.
~ Edward Noyes Westcott
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums and those in cemeteries.
~ Everett M. Dirksen
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
~ Woodrow Wilson
There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.
~ Henry George
We are restless because of incessant change but we would be frightened if change were stopped.
~ Lyman Lloyd Bryson
I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.
~ Ruth Bader Ginsberg
Lifting as they climb onward and upward they go struggling and striving and hoping that the buds and blossoms of their desires may burst into glorious fruition ere long.
~ Mary Church Terrell
Although none of the rules for becoming alive is valid it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
~ Susan Sontag
You can't pay attention to your mistakes. I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.
~ Jerry Rubin
True revolutions ... restore more than they destroy.
~ Louise Bogan
Optimism is essential to achievement and is also the foundation of courage and of true progress.
~ Nicholas Murray Butler
One is not born a genius one becomes a genius.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
It is no use blaming the men-we made them what they are-and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves-the makers of men-a little more responsible.
~ Nancy Astor
I'm in a wonderful position: I'm unknown I'm underrated and there's nowhere to go but up.
~ Pierre S. DuPont IV
Focus is important. Focus on those parts of yourself that are working. Look at yourself as someone whose body is in the process of healing. Concentrate on the positive parts.
~ Will Garcia
Anyone can have an off decade.
~ Larry Cole
Success produces success just as money produces money.
~ Nicolas de Chamfort
Look to the past only to find ways to improve your present and future, never to find regrets. Don't let what has happened in the past limit your life now. Let your past expand your life.
~ Avina Celeste
I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.
~ Katie Taylor
Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!
~ Mark A. Cooper
The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.
~ Antonio Gramsci
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
~ Kofi Annan
Remember that consciousness is power. Tomorrow's world is yours to build.
~ Yuri Kochiyama