Quotes About Progress

Mary Woolley wasn't only a suffragist; she was also a feminist. Feminism is not a prejudice, she said, It is a principle.

Wonder Woman isn't only an Amazonian princess with badass boots. She's the missing link in a chain of events that begins with the woman suffrage campaigns of the 1910s and ends with the troubled place of feminism fully a century later. Feminism made Wonder Woman. And then Wonder Woman remade feminism....

We have hands that must work, brains that must think, and personalities that must be developed.

It might not be much. OK, it wasn't much. But it was a start.

Sometimes you knew changes needed to be made but just couldn't summon up the energy to make them.

Well that's because I wasn't always like this.' Henrietta paused, examining her knuckles. 'I built a wall around myself.

Everyone makes mistakes. But you stopped and did something about it. Most people don't bother.

But that was then. This was now. She was a different person these days.

Time itself is cyclic, and by the spiral of its returning seasons we review the progress and growth of our own understanding.

Josh had made a lot of mistakes in his life, and he'd tried to learn from all of them. He definitely tried to not repeat them. Hiring Grace had been his favorite mistake so far.

I just don't want you to… What? Be reminded of the girl that I used to be…

Life is not about perfection. It's about progress. And progress only comes with age.

Remember, you can't change what has happened to you in the past, but you can take steps to ensure a better tomorrow.

We are the link to the past, the anchor to the present, and the bridge to the future."28

It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.

There is the world that should be and the world that is. We live in one and must create the other.

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.

You can't plan for everything or you never get started in the first place.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.

The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

Isana felt her throat tighten. We failed. Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

Sometimes the things that are good for you, in the long run, hurt for a little while when you first get to them.

Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.