Quotes About Progress

I am not an anti to anything which will bring freedom to my class.

I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot.

Every time we get to the finish line they move it. Every time.

There's always an open door. Forget the past and walk through.

My life is a book, a new chapter - a new day

Building a neighbourhood takes a very long time. It takes at least twenty years and then some. Like a garden, a neighbourhood must be tended regularly and by many people. There are seeds to be sown, little plants to water. And yes, every day there are weeds to be pulled, small problems to be solved before they overwhelm what is good. It is a humble task, and it is never over. There are days when you think the slightest storm could blow all this loveliness away.

Trees can grow from tiny cracks in stony cliffs, Kate. This may be a very small crack indeed—but it's a beginning.

Don't look over your shoulder. The past is past. Just try to get through it, and give yourself some grace.

People fall forward to success.

We fall forward to succeed.

People fail forward to success.

Give yourself something to work toward -- constantly.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.

Our task is to provide an education for the kind of kids we have... Not the kind of kids we used to have... Or want to have... Or the kids that exist in our dreams.

Things tent to get worse, before they got worse

The great paradox of automation is that the desire to eliminate human labor always generates new tasks for humans.

We are all works in progress until the moment we die, none of us complete until that precise event.

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

We are all bumbling along,side by side, week in, week out, our paths similar in some ways and different in others, all apparently running parallel. But parallel lines never meet.

I see the old even as I am looking at the new--the storefronts now occupied by up-to-date boutiques and trendy retail shops. It's almost like being in two places at the same time.

Mary Lynn Manns

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

1883, Printemps achieved the distinction of being the first department store in Paris to be lit electrically. Zola,

Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.