Quotes About Progress

People don't finish, Rose. People stop. To finish is to say okay, now it's right, never I'm going to change it. To stop is to say okay, it's not perfect, but I have to go to something else.

Jennings, barely listening to the little girls' chatter, sat amazed at the way life continued. He was not the same person.

Accept your losses and forgive your mistakes, then you can embrace a happy future.

Bloom where you're planted and if you can't do that, plant where you bloom. —Dutch Callahan

Naturally, when a young fellow steps up into a big position, it breeds jealousy among those whom he's left behind and uneasiness among those to whom he's pulled himself up. Between them he's likely to be subjected to a lot of petty annoyances. But he's in the fix of a dog with fleas who's chasing a rabbit -- if he stops to snap at the tickling on his tail, he's going to lose his game dinner.

Though I would never have believed it as a teenager, you do move past things, outgrow the person you were. Sometimes, just by staying alive, you find you have become someone who can live in the world after all.

the character's failure to move with the times leads to death, suggesting the anachronistic nature of this [hyper/stereotypical] type of masculinity.

Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.

MAMA (Quietly, woman to woman) He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain… RUTH (Biting her lip, lest her own pride explode in front of Mama) Yes, Lena.

Cause sometimes it's hard to let the future begin!

If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.

Today is the first day of the rest of my life. I will make it a productive one.

All the world's a stage we're going through.

Regardless what technology is, I like analog too.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

As with most things in life, it's that little hop at the end…

those were different times.

Nat Glover (Jacksonville Sheriff 1995-2003). I appointed him patrolman when I was mayor. In 1965, we had a segregated police department. A black officer could not arrest a white person. When the black officers were recruited, they had their own precinct over on the west side of LaVilla and were given passed down uniforms.

Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure.

At some point you have to park your past and put yellow caution tape around it so you don't keep going back to it. Because there's nothing like lounging around in your past and all that self-pity.