Quotes About Progress

Embracing small personal changes can be the first step toward creating greater change in the world, and humanity at large.

The higher you climb, the further you have to fall.

The status quo is never news, only challenges to it.

That's just the way it is. Some things will never change. That's just the way it is. But you don't believe them.

Success consists of a series of little daily efforts.

The tricks of today are the truths of tomorrow.

Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.

I was thinking that there's no point living in the past. The future is the only thing that matters, and that it's what you make it.

24. August Die Hauptsache ist, daß man mit Gott Schritt hält und ihm nicht immer einige Schritte vorauseilt, allerdings auch keinen Schritt hinter ihm zurück bleibt.

Mit Gott tritt man nicht auf der Stelle, sondern man beschreitet einen Weg.

Wer rastet, rostet - what rests, rusts.

We are always beginning to live, but are never living.

The age of democratic revolutions inaugurated by the American revolution made the existence of slavery and servile labor questionable for the first time in western history

When one was reinventing oneself, anywhere could be home.

The tradition that refuses to entertain doubt, or remains impervious to new thoughts and ideas, becomes a prison rather than a sustaining life force.

especially as the freshness of new initiatives gave way to the inevitability of routine.

A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.

The world hat day appeared perfect. Like a great wrong had been righted. India had shrugged off her shackles and had stood upright, ready to claim her rightful position o the world stage.

Si queremos modernizar al país, tenemos que comenzar por modernizar nuestra política

Not what it could have been: It is what it was. And what it was is dead. Octavio Paz, Lesson of Things, 1955

Capture what's given to you but strive for what is not.

For example, in treating patients, I find that it is typically useless to concentrate a lot on why a patient is in trouble; that tends to be academic masturbation and can go on for years with no beneficial results.

La vejez es la más grande de las desgracias de la humanidad, una enfermedad crónica que debe ser combatida por el progreso de la ciencia».

Genuine equality between the sexes can only be realized in the process of the socialist transformation of society as a whole.