Quotes About Progress

Once I had every trade certificate I could get at Corcoran, I enrolled in a two-year college program. It had been

so long since my last stint in college, but my aptitude for academics came back to me quickly.

Chaos is another name for opportunity

The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.

The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development.

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today.

The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it'.

Learning without action is like wax without honey. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.

You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.

One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.

You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

Words have to die if humans are to live.

Stages First I thought that a Teacher must be right in all things. Then I imagined that my teacher was wrong in many things. Then I realised what was right and what was wrong. What was wrong was to remain in either of the first two stages. What was right was to convey this to everyone. (Ardabili)

A solved problem is as useful to a man's mind as a broken sword on a battlefield.

Better the demon which makes you improve than the angel who threatens.

Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction.

Se puede dar o rehusar de una manera mucho más efectiva, elaborada, útil, por completo invisible para las personas que piensan que dar o rehusar es un hecho producto de evaluación externa. Si buscas algún indicio de favor o "promoción", debes saber que no estás listo. El progreso llega a través de la capacidad de aprender, y es irresistible. Nadie puede interponerse entre tú y el conocimiento, si eres apto para éste.

El progreso llega a través de la capacidad de aprender, y es irresistible.

You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.

It will pass, whatever it is.