Quotes About Progress

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up. Some mountains are higher than others, some roads steeper than the next. There are hardships and setbacks, but you can't let them stop you. Even on the steepest road, you must not turn back. You must keep going up. In order to reach the top of the mountain, you have to climb every rock.

Each time I thought I had achieved my life's purpose, I discovered it was only another step in my journey.

recognize how every moment of our journey is an important part of the growth of our soul. I

Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

The highest stage of Man's ethical progress is reached when he becomes absolutely free from fear and grief.

Ba kuja sar niham keh chun zanjir Har dare halqa-e dare digar-ast (Hide—but where? Each door I close opens another.) —Anonymous (found in a ghazal by Mir Taqi Mir)

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

He embraced political power not as an end in itself, but for what it could accomplish for the betterment of society;

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

Hayat?mda bir ?eyler de?i?sin istiyorum. sürekli bir ?eyler de?i?sin. sonra da çok korkuyorum. her ?ey de?i?ecek diye korkuyorum.

The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

We must consciously create our own world, not according to mindless customs and destructive prejudices, but according to the canons of reason, reflection, and discourse that uniquely belong to our own species.

I am puzzled by people today who, after moralizing about the need for cooperation and goodwill and love-thy-neighbor-as-thyself, suddenly invoke the most primitive, barbarous motivations for any kind of progress.

When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a flame. We know now that it was a very complicated time and that they were more complicated people than they knew.

lifeblood, not only of our economy, but of civilization

si realmente queremos mejorar el mundo, debemos mirar más allá del gobierno. Las soluciones reales no están en el poder, sino en el mercado.

Every once in awhile the human race pauses in the job of botching its affairs and redeems itself by a noble work of the intellect.