Quotes About Progress

I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

My father used to say that, through culture, humans effectively domesticated themselves.

My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.

The child is the father of man.

Either things grow and change or they die.

My father wasn't a militant racist. He was a human rights activist - he was about human beings, so let's just get away from going way back then.

This is not your father's marketing. Instead of "do it right no matter what", search marketing demands that you "do it wrong quickly and then fix it".

My father and I marched with Martin Luther King Jr. through the streets of Detroit.

When I was growing up in the 50s it wasn't quite the same. Fathers were more protective and now they see all of the possibilities for their daughters.

... finally democracy is catching up with the old, hierarchical, father-dominated family: the family is being democratized.

My father taught me not to overthink things, that nothing will ever be perfect, so just keep moving and do your best.

My parents, especially my father, discussed the question of my brothers' education as a matter of real importance. My education and that of my sister were scarcely discussed at all.

We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction.

Move, but don't move the way fear makes you move.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.

It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.