Quotes About Progress

If a change in our lives require individually or socially painful sacrifices, it will be difficult to put into effect no matter how necessary that change might be. However, if we start down the road of transformation with simple, enjoyable, and tangible changes, we will soon be prepared to tackle larger issues.

There is no failure, just the gradual process of success.

The universe likes change. All that appears solid and substantial is built on the shifting sands of ceaseless transformation on the quantum level. Ironically, that's the one steady factor about the universe - it is always changing, which means our efforts to change are supported by the very nature of Life.

You don't need to know everything that you want or need to do from the very beginning. Sometimes having a complete plan and trying to stick to it makes things more difficult. You just need to start, and then keep going.

Even when it encounters an obstacle, flowing water always goes on its intended way. If it meets a rock, even if it parts, it goes around and around again and keeps flowing. If there is no path, it makes one.

History tells us that revolution is not an isolated event because it is not about overthrowing governments, it is about spreading new ideas.

There is a powerful human compulsion to leave things tied up in neat little bundles. But every journey except your last has an open end. And any journey of value is above all a chapter in a personal odyssey. Its end is not so much a goal attained as another point in a continuing process. And the important thing at the end of a journey--or of a book--is to keep moving forward, refreshed, with as little pause as possible.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

Get mad, then get over it.

I'm not perfect but I'll be the creator of perfection.

Standards must be achievable (though achieving them will always require extra effort), and the leaders must provide the means to get there. The focus should always be on getting better and better. We must always reach for the better way.

Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy pursuing impossible dreams. Yet constant naysayers pursue no less impossible dreams. Their fear and cynicism move nothing forward. They kill progress. How many cynics built empires, great cities, or powerful corporations?

The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.

while its in the future it can never be in the present

Human intelligence is a function of man's evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of being merely human.

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

Accepting mistakes is the best way of not making them.

As soon as we realise our primitivity, the world can progress to true greatness.

Bring to the world and to the minds of the peoples that which has been broken or that which has never existed before.

Division is always regression.