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Quotes About Progress

El zekan?n bir aletidir yaln?zca. Zeka olmazsa hiçbir ?ey yap?lm?? olmaz.
~ Alexandra Lapierre
Life doesn't hang around, it keeps moving and if you don't keep up you can lose things.
~ Alexandra Potter
With endings come new beginnings.
~ Alexandra Potter
I don't want to spend whatever time I have left looking backwards. I want to look forwards. To new things. New places. New adventures. Otherwise I'm just living a life where a part of me is missing.
~ Alexandra Potter
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
~ Alexandra Potter
Word by word, page by page,' Cricket tells her cheerfully, 'that's how a writer writes and how a reader should read. You'll get there in the end. Doesn't matter if it takes six months or a year or longer to finish it. That's what I always used to tell my husband.
~ Alexandra Potter
Don't worry about me. I'm going to learn to be happy.
~ Alexandra Ripley
Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about
~ Alexandra Ripley
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." Our
~ Alexandra Stoddard
What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
The thoughtful little things we do each day have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
Move your feet in the direction that is most favorable for your living up to your full potential.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
The little troubles and worries of life, so many of which we meet, may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping stones to a noble character.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.
~ Alexandre Dumas
The public were not to be consulted on whether they wished to have their cities and towns torn down and rebuilt in an entirely original and untested style with no connection to what had gone before.
~ Alexei Sayle
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
~ Alexis Carrel
To accomplish our destiny it is not enough to merely guard prudently against road accidents. We must also cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
~ Alexis Carrel
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
~ Alexis Carrel
It is not certain that the standardized habits of modern life lead to the optimum development of human beings. The present ways of living have been adopted because they are easy and pleasant. Indeed, they differ profoundly from those of our ancestors and of the human groups which have so far resisted industrial civilization. We do not know, as yet, whither they are better or worse.
~ Alexis Carrel
Uma tentativa infeliz vale mais do que a ausência de tentaiva
~ Alexis Carrel
If I were asked… to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people [the Americans] ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement. The idea of novelty is there indissolubly connected with the idea of amelioration.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be; in this direction their unbounded imagination grows and dilates beyond all measure…. Democracy, which shuts the past against the poet, opens the future before him.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Born often under another sky, placed in the middle of an always moving scene, himself driven by the irresistible torrent which draws all about him, the American has no time to tie himself to anything, he grows accustomed only to change, and ends by regarding it as the natural state of man. He feels the need of it, more he loves it; for the instability; instead of meaning disaster to him, seems to give birth only to miracles all about him.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville