Quotes About Progress

The drop excavates the stone, not with force but by falling often.

We were taking one step for jocks, one giant leap for jock-kind.

She raised (all) spirits towards the hope of better times

Change is good.

You've learned the lesson,' Kellhus had said on one of those rare mornings when he shared her breakfast. 'What lesson might that be?' 'That the lessons never end.' He laughed, gingerly sipped his steaming tea. 'That ignorance is infinite.

What is practicality but one moment betrayed for the next? —

Our progress in the past usually came slowly, and our recovery will come slowly. It will come as men, each in their sphere of action, begin the task of reconstruction. Reconstruction begins with our lives and God's grace; it extends to our vocations, our institutions' homes, and society' Life and progress are made up of a great number of little things; we cover a mile by small steps, and the surest move forward is that small step rather than a giant day dream.

This may only be Act One!

You must change your life.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready. —D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES

life is a work in progress.

Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!

I'm learning all the time. Well, you're a scholar.

She keeps asking me where we're going. Yeah, another voice said. It was Shane, pulling up a chair beside Claire. Girls do that. They've always got to be taking the relationship somewhere. That's not true! It is, he said. I get it; somebody's got to be looking ahead. But it makes guys think they're- Closed in, Michael said. Trapped, Shane added. Idiots, Claire finished.

The world doesn't end, Claire. In the morning, the survivors start to build again. It's way of things. The human way.

The unknowns wasn't full of terrors, it was full of undiscovered advantages. Better to run toward something than from something.

And change isn't destruction. It's just change.

You did what was right for those who agreed with you, and that is all in the past. We are talking about our future. Oliver, we cannot live as we did.

And if you want to fight an old man who wants to drag the Great Library into the past, appoint a young woman who looks to the future.

You've been the least useless apprentice I've ever had.

Don't play to your strengths," Jess told her. "Strengthen your weaknesses.

Better to run toward something than run from something.

So we must acknowledge that knowledge is ever expanding, ever changing, and so we must also change with it

She'd started handcuffed, armed with a paper clip. Now she had a ten-inch strip of metal with sharp edges, handcuffs, and a paper clip. Her odds were improving all the time.