Quotes About Progress

Walking toward the light. None of us lives in the light; we can only walk toward it, with the eyes and legs God has given us.

Life is a hill that gets steeper the more you climb.

The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father's opinions and even into those of our grandfathers.

Wir wissen eben nicht, was einer tun sollte, wir haben nicht mehr wir früher Antworten parat; wir wursteln uns bloß weiter durch und versuchen, nicht nachzudenken.

Sad business, being a Negro man, always underpaid, their eyes don't look like our eyes, bloodshot, brown, liquid in them about to quiver out. Read somewhere some anthropologist thinks Negroes instead of being more primitive are the latest thing to evolve, the newest man.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during a visit to Canada in 1929

By the time these words are read, the centuries-old cedar, hemlock, and balsm of the cutblock known as Leah Block 2 will be a distant memory, long since processed into siding, two-by-fours, perhaps even the paper that has been recycled into the pages of this book.

Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field.

Right now what I need to think about is what would be possible, not all the reasons I can't make a change.

We had a policy of no looking back. Once a decision was made, all members of our team were expected to stop talking about obstacles and instead focus intensely on solutions. Don't tell us all the reasons this might not work. Tell us all the ways it could work.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Remember this your lifetime through: Tomorrow there will be more to do. And failure waits for all who stay With some success made yesterday. Tomorrow you must try once more, And even harder than before.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Never mistake activity for achievement.

We will begin by learning how to tie our shoes.

Failure is not Fatal, but Failure to CHANGE can be.

Little things make the big things happen

Measure yourself by...what you have accomplished with your ability

Remember, results aren't the criteria for success — it's the effort made for achievement that is most important.

The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.

Make each day a masterpiece.