Quotes About Progress

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, 'I don't care how hard this is, I don't care how disappointed I am, I'm not going to let this get the best of me. I'm moving on with my life.

When you are tempted to get discouraged, remind yourself that according to God's word, your future is getting brighter; you are on your way to a new level of glory. You may think you've got a long way to go, but you need to look back at how far you've already come. You may not be everything you want to be but atleast you can thank God that you're not what you used to be.

You will never change what you tolerate.

to repent of my former patterns of thinking and live in exchange for something far better.

Tolerably good workmen in any of those mechanic arts are sure to find employ, and to be well paid for their work, there being no restraints preventing strangers from exercising any art they understand, nor any permission necessary. If they are poor, they begin first as servants or journeymen; and if they are sober, industrious, and frugal, they soon become masters, establish themselves in business, marry, raise families, and become respectable citizens.

For many years the conviction has grown upon me that civilization arises and unfolds in and as play.

if you take big steps and climb with all your little might!

New Chapter about New Things

When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

Ships and sails proper for the heavely air should be fashioned. Johannes Kepler to Galileo 1609

Laws for the liberal education of youth, especially of the lower class of people, are so extremely wise and useful, that, to a humane and generous mind, no expense for this purpose would be thought extravagant.

You need friends who make you giggle and come alive for progress. Talk with them.

Every friend loves to change for the best; but few really do.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through …

That's sort of growing up, I guess. Forgetting the things you used to love.

There I stood, looking at myself in the mirror, thinking that I had come so far, I had worked so hard, and now the disease was threatening to stamp out all of my progress.

Few industries have had their death foretold more frequently than the book publishing industry, and yet somehow, miraculously, it seems to have survived them all – at least till now.

How deceptively light they are, the truly decisive steps we take in life.

Halfway up the drive there was God these tedious details. Halfway up there was a…

Lots of water under that bridge, let's not drown ourselves in it.

The Stoics denied the concept of progress. There might be a little advance here, some improvement there—cosmology in their time, dentistry in ours—but in the long run the balance of things, such as good and evil, beauty and ugliness, joy and misery, remains constant.

Another week done with. How quickly the time goes as the season advances, the earth hurtling along its groove into the years's sharply descending final arc.

Destruam et aedificabo, as Proudhon was wont to cry.

If your library is not unsafe, it probably isn't doing its job.