Quotes About Progress

Starting is good. You can't get anywhere at all if you never start.

How goes the battle?

Some progress is progress. I see change.

Individually we have ever-increasing freedom to choose our own path on life's journey.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

The hardest part about changing the new year is changing ourselves. We have to write each day differently than last year's days. If we do, we increase the chances we won't meet with last year's disappointments. Patricia Hickman

In a widely cited piece titled "The Middle-Class Black's burden," Ms. McClain laments, "I am not comfortably middle class; I am uncomfortably middle class. I have made it, but where?

as social conditions change, so must the knowledge and practices designed to resist them

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.

What is perfect? Journey, a thing doesn't have to be perfect to be fine. That goes for a picture. That goes for life....Things can be good enough.

Patricia McLinn

I'd go to school and walk up to people. "A new leaf," I said.

Right here at our doorstep, we'll have the most beautiful bridge in the world.

Life is an escalator: You can move forward or backward; you can not remain still.

rocky terrain is unavoidable and may even be the path to something wonderful. "We can count on chaos,

By stabilizing things you defeat the point of the exercise. Stay with the uncertainty, please. Really, it's all about the struggle.

Perfect is close enough.

Keep the gift moving forward.

We make mistakes, sometimes whoppers. We correct them or we capitalize on them.

unreasonable.' She felt like saying it was barking mad but restrained herself. 'Aahh, not quite ready yet. Not quite evolved enough. But you're getting there, Judith. You have taken the first tentative steps. The fact that you came to me proves that. You'll be back.' Sheeva jumped up from the

Between the tenets of those two men [W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington], a race strived to untangle its convoluted root, urged its whole self forward, and hurtled toward the door America had fought so hard to keep closed.

We can't go back, Alexa", he said. " We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.

We can't go back once we've started growing up, and the world can't be made simple again.