Quotes About Progress

Where you falter, alter.

How can we make this happen?

There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.

I believe that. It is easy to be bleak about the human race, but there are people who have proved to me that we can be better than we are."19

In many ways, racial segregation in America has worsened since King's death. National progress has been stalled, indeed reversed, by local, state, and federal policies—from gentrification and zoning laws to tax codes

During the Second Reconstruction, which, as mentioned earlier, lasted from the Brown decision in 1954 until the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, reconstructionists won important legislative victories in bills declaring formal segregation unconstitutional.

Exploration of space is worth it because humans need to explore. Knowledge is always good, and it's a really cool thing to see.

The evidence shows you that two things have been true throughout mankind's history: One, things always get better. Two, people always think they're getting worse.

It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. Confucius

If you slow or stop the flow to try to maintain your old comfort level, you only stall your progress, reinforce fear, and create needless pressure and agitation. If you trust that a higher sanity is directing the flow and that it's just right for you and surrender to having the experiences you need, the frequency of your body, emotions, and mind will rise and you will experience the benefits of each phase.

O que importa é mudar a ovalidade do mundo sem dele fugir.

er tida en sekk du kan stappe inn i hvor mye som helst, går den aldri bare herfra til dit, men i stedet i sirkel etter sirkel, og så kommer du tilbake hver eneste gang til stedet hvor du begynte. Men det var ikke sånn heller. Før var jeg ung, nå var jeg ikke ung. Jeg ble aldri ung igjen.

Christ, man, it's 1871, ain't you people ever gonna forget about that slavery stuff?

The world is weary of the past,Oh, might it die or rest at last!

From the dust of creeds outworn.

Till the Future daresForget the Past, his fate and fame shall beAn echo and a light unto eternity!

Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Toward whatsoever we regard as perfect, undoubtedly, it is no less our duty than it is our nature to press forward; this is the generous enthusiasm which accomplishes not indeed the consummation after which it aspires, but one which approaches it in a degree far nearer than if the whole powers had not been developed by a delusion. It is in politics rather than in religion that faith is meritorious.

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past

El motor último del capitalismo no es, por tanto, la sed de ganancia ni ningún otro deseo humano, sino el desarrollo en cuanto entropía negativa. "El desarrollo no es un invento de los seres humanos. Los seres humanos son un invento del desarrollo" [Lyotard "Une fable postmoderne", en Moralités postmodernes pp. 86-87]

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere." —FRANK HOWARD CLARK

China's demand for energy is expected to increase 150% by the year 2020.

Often your greatest battles come before your greatest blessings.

Pruning includes purging the wrong thinking, the negative attitudes, and the wrong people that surround you.