Quotes About Progress

You will never be a leader in any area of your life if you are not a reader in those areas of life.

Remember to forget what lies behind, reach and press forward.

It's not how you start that's important, but how well you finish!

Let your past failures prepare you for future victories.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. from The Beast God Forgot to Invent

He had been foolish enough to believe that as he recovered over the past few months the world might be recovering with him

All our progress of luxury and knowledge . . . we have not been lifted by as much as an inch above the level of the darkest ages . . . The last hundred years have wrought no change in the passions, the cruelties, and the barbarous impulses of mankind. There is no change from the savagery of the Middle Ages. We enter a new century equipped with every wonderful device of science and art but the pirate, the savage, and the tyrant still survives.

However grim the world, we are what we have evolved into.

I think it's not particularly necessary to lead a religious life. People progress just as well in music, or art, or math or science or gardening or whatever. It all seems to work as well and the process is good.

You are where you are because that's where you need to be... and if you need to move on, you will move on.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

I figure sometimes that maybe that's why we don't make as much progress as other parts of the nation. People lose so much time from their jobs in lynching other people, and they spend so much money on rope and kerosene and getting likkered-up in advance and other essentials, that there ain't an awful lot of money or man-hours left for practical purposes.

He was thinking that the cities, perhaps, needed to look into the future even more than the country did. They should look ahead for forty, eighty, one hundred and sixty years, to a strong and healthy plain of population - or to an overworked, weakened, underfed, and infertile desert.

since the first edition of this book, much has changed in the world and in American education. And so, too, this book

Breathe in, breathe out, move on

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.

We cannot change the history of the past.

We cannot ignore our gift of the future.

The rhetoric and demands from all sides may be harsh, but there are obvious areas of agreement that can provide a basis for progress. Private discussions with Arab leaders are much more promising than their public statements would lead one to believe, and in Israel there is a strong and persistent constituency for moderation that is too little heard or appreciated in neighboring states or in America.

Live your life by doing activities that are beneficial

Perhaps all young girls should receive voice-deepening instruction, as they once had learned how to iron men's white oxford-cloth shirts and walk with books on their heads.

O mais importante e bonito, do mundo, é isto: que as pessoas não estão sempre iguais, ainda não foram terminadas – mas que elas vão sempre mudando. (...) Natureza da gente não cabe em nenhuma certeza.

Tudo o que já foi, é o começo do que vai vir, toda a hora a gente está num cômpito.

A única esperança que nos resta é que estas contradições sejam uma questão de gerações. No futuro haveremos de parecer bem ridículos.