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Quotes About Progress

In education the appetite does indeed grow with eating. I have never known anyone to abandon study because they knew too much.
~ John Charles Polanyi
We tend to view confidence as a product of accomplishment rather than part of the process that leads there. But supremely confident people were confident long before they achieved anything.
~ John Eliot
We celebrate the past to awaken the future.
~ John F. Kennedy
There will be many times when we won't look good-to ourselves or anyone else. We need to stop demanding that we do. It is impossible to get better and look good at the same time.
~ Julia Cameron
Shaking the past, making my break, taking control, that's what it takes.
~ Kenny Loggins
So what makes me happy? I was really happy to build this house. That's it; building things. The trouble with software is that it's very hard to show your aunt in Florida what you've done.
~ Larry Ellison
Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.
~ Lord Chesterfield
The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.
~ Louis Kronenberger
We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.
~ Marianne Williamson
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.
~ Matthew Fox
We've come a long way, we've come a long way and we never even left L.A.
~ Michelle Shocked
Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.
~ Mikhail Baryshnikov
There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
There are no inevitabilities in history
~ Paul Johnson
You have to follow the old rule for a while. In fact, once you master the old rule, you are then the master-and masters get to change things.
~ Peter McWilliams
This is how it happens. We get the Dream, but we don't get to dictate every step toward the dream.
~ Peter McWilliams
I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
~ Rajneesh
We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way.
~ Richard Branson
The greatest detriment to tomorrow's success, is today's success.
~ Rick Warren
Commerce is the great civilizer. We exchange ideas when we exchange fabrics.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying.
~ Robert M. Hensel