Quotes About Progress

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

It behooves us ill to look back and point fingers, saying, 'Ah, that should not have happened. That should not have been allowed.' Such a perspective is granted only to men staring backward, Sir William. For those of us with the will to go forward, it is as if we walk blindfolded into a dark room. Not every false step or stumble can be judged after the moment has passed, nor should it be.

The great moments of your life are still ahead. Yet if you only take a step when you are certain you are right, you will never move at all.

Three hundred miles is just one step on a journey that I have on my mind

Let us accept each coming day and make the best possible choices

Rome wasn't built on caution and compromise.

A young man, who's marching like a leopard, can't keep himself by the mistakes of the past.

An earlier start can break their spirit; go later and their spirit has already gotten hardened in the wrong place

It's not bad to know history, commander. Every generation don't need to overcome again already existing art. Especially if the hardest part of the work is already done.

Over a seven year span, only 10% of college slaying remained in place.

Everybody changes, Ellie figured. Everybody starts out as one kind of person and ends up being somebody else. … Even when you don't notice it, life is rearranging you.

It's one thing to remember your roots, Sam. Helps us keep our balance. But don't let your roots become your excuse to be stuck.

It's one thing to remember your roots, Sam. Helps us keep our balance. But don't let your roots become your excuse to be stuck.

Although at times it may be frustrating and even painful to hold the tension of your yearning rather than to submerge it, when you align with it you align with the force of evolution itself.

Hence no progress or growth is possible until the shadow is adequately confronted—and confronting means more than merely knowing about it. It is not until we have truly been shocked into seeing ourselves as we really are, instead of as we wish or hopefully assume we are, that we can take the first step toward individual reality.

And, when we continue to ask, "What do you want through that," at some point the answers always flip to something positive.

Finally, we notice how already having the Core State naturally transforms the original behavior we didn't like.

Ghostly above us in lamplight the towers gleam ... and after a while they will fall to dust and rain; or else we will tear them down with impatient hands; and hew rock out of the earth, and build them again.

Our hands are hot and raw with the stones we have laid, We have built a tower of stone high into the sky, We have built a city of towers.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Success ... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Success seems to be connected to action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.