Quotes About Progress

Trying to figure out what happened to me isn't important. It's what I do with what I've learned that counts.

There are no silver bullets in life; there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug yourself.

Chase every rung of possibility, and you still get absolutely nowhere.

God, don't they teach you how to spell these days? No, I answer. They teach us to use spell-check.

A long time ago someone told me that a story will tell itself, when it's ready.

The future may unfold in indelible strokes, but it doesn't mean we have to read the same lines over and over.

did not realize at that time that when you plant seeds, you also get roots.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl

All I'm saying is that the past is nothing but a springboard for the future.

Daniel understood that in the blink of an eye you might reinvent yourself. He understood that the person you were yesterday might not be the person you are tomorrow.

This sort of obsessing would get him nowhere. He needed to move on, to get going, to look forward.

May be the question we need to ask isn't whether there's any fresh twenty first century sin...but whether the people who define sin have changed, because of the times.

Si no corregimos la dirección en la que vamos, acabaremos en el lugar de donde venimos.

The only way you can tell how far you've come is to know where you started.

If she was getting anywhere on this journey, it was still the wrong way.

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. —CHINESE PROVERB

You can always edit something bad. You can't edit something blank.

The age wasn't as important as the milestones.

Where is this going to take me? she had asked. And Caleb's answer: Where do you want it to?

I close my eyes, rub my thumb against the bridge of my nose to ward off the headache. Well, Rome wasn't built in a day.

Every beginning is already the start of the end

The problem, he said, with being one of the best is that you still have to get better. But you're competing with yourself.

Creation, by definition, is separation. Moving forward means being split apart.

The Center had suffered scars from the cuts of politicians and the barbs of protesters. It had licked its wounds and healed. At one point it had been called the Center for Women and Reproductive Health. But there were those who believed if you do not name a thing, it ceases to exist, and so its title was amputated, like a war injury. But still, it survived. First it became the Center for Women. And then, just: the Center.