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Quotes About Progress

Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they'll find a means to be happy.
~ Anton Chekhov
All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.
~ Erich Fromm
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness
~ Leo Tolstoy
Purity is something that can be consciously developed. Expect to have impure moments, thoughts, and ideas. One day they will go away, and then there will be happiness.
~ Frederick Lenz
Im not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, Im rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.
~ Edward Albee
This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
~ Margaret Lindsay
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements to farther progress.
~ Samuel Johnson
Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Happiness does not require an expanding economy
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Effort is not a means to lead us to happiness. Effort itself is happiness
~ Leo Tolstoy
Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.
~ Shawn Achor
Happy are those who evolve from within.
~ Amit Abraham
We must be doing something to be happy.
~ William Hazlitt
To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well.
~ Jane Austen
I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world
~ Ashton Kutcher
Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.
~ Thomas Jefferson
When all things are considered, happiness is a better indicator of success than success has ever been of happiness.
~ Mardy Grothe
The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.
~ Edward Gibbon
Those who don't know the mistakes of the past won't be able to enjoy it when they make them again in the future.
~ Diane Duane
We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.
~ Samuel Johnson
You should strive to find happiness every day and not believe that it comes at the end of the journey.
~ William J. Clinton
Happiness is not a house where you can live. (But it is a house you can build.)
~ Joey Comeau
Happiness will depend on what each of us does with what each has, what we learn from what we do, and what we do thereafter.
~ Boyd K. Packer
May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world.
~ Swami Vivekananda