Quotes About Progress

The best and most clear indicator that we are progressing spiritually and coming unto Christ is the way we treat other people.

Proper attitude in this crisis-dominated world is a priceless possession. Never before is it more important for all of us to move forward with conviction. We may be behind, but we are not losing if we are moving in the right direction. God will not score our performances until the end of the journey.

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.

I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me.

My story will change, and so will yours. We'll just go on changing, making a new set of choices, then living them out. That's what life is anyway, just a long string of choices.

Life is more about the journey than the destination

caterpillar must shed its skin five times before it forms the chrysalis. The caterpillar doesn't just change. It completely transforms. The old form dies and the new is reborn. That's the miracle that gives us hope.

Vita eundo vires acquirimus. In life we gather strength as we go.

Lean forward into your life. Begin each day as if it were on purpose.

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later...Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

Chastity is the cement of civilization and progress. Without it there is no stability in society, and without it one cannot attain the Science of Life.

Give to it the place in our institutions of learning now occupied by scholastic theology and physiology, and it will 142 eradicate sickness and sin in less time than the old systems, devised for subduing them, have required for self-establishment and propagation.

It is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors.

I found the city built of brick and left it built of marble,' this

In reality, the whole process must have been more gradual than that story suggests, and messier. The 'Republic' was born slowly, over a period of decades, if not centuries. It was reinvented many times over.

is a dangerous myth that we are better historians than our predecessors.

se quisermos fazer um verdadeiro progresso (...), temos de retroceder a alguns dos primeiros princípios acerca da natureza da autoridade verbal, acerca do que a constitui e de como aprendemos a ouvir a autoridade quando o fazemos. E em vez de empurrar as mulheres para as aulas de dicção para ficarem com um tom agradável, profundo (...), devíamos pensar mais acerca das clivagens e das fraturas que subjazem nos diálogos dominantemente masculinos?

Autocracy represented, in a sense, an end of history.

I no longer think, as I once naively did, that we have much to learn directly from the Romans – or, for that matter, from the ancient Greeks, or from any other ancient civilisation.

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.

A person could only mope around so long feeling sorry for himself and then he needed to get over it and get moving.

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn." ? Mary Catherine Bateson