Quotes About Progress

He believed, like all good radicals, that everything ought to be examined anew by each generation. What served society should be retained, and what did not should be discarded without sentiment or reserve.

I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn't a final destination. You don't one day get there and get to stay.

Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.

Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.

The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

I mean it's purposeful, even if we don't realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind….

When you are a human being, you must decide and decide again to go forward. You must, or you won't move from the worst that life offers...

Good things don't always lead to bad ones, Crick.

Good can sit in the distance, just beyond your view, waiting, until you go toward it.

Sometimes a decision is not one monumental event, but many small, slightly unsteady ones.

We are what we've been so far.

People plus people plus anger is how things can change.

Every morning you are reborn, and prove it worthwhile.

I am the one constant obstacle to my own momentum.

Expansion of character is connected to expansion of destiny.

People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is.

Until our education system is repositioned to take care of the tripartite nature of a human being - head, heart and hand, we cannot make healthy progress as a nation or individuals.

In this business (showbiz) it takes time to be really good and by that time, you're obsolete.

Three out of every one hundred people set goals. Even fewer write them down… You can be someone who does have goals—A Goal Getter!

There's only so far we can step backward in one day

We won't let poverty kill educational access & opportunities. We'll kill poverty through education.

Everything that is old was once new.

A masterpiece does not unfurl its wings immediately. It takes time. It will fly when it is ready.

Don't just raise the bar… Raise the roof.