Quotes About Progress

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

but you know the more one does the more one can do.

We create history by our act and deeds.

Dont be fraustrated when you make mistakes, just learn and never take that step again.

Experience without learning is better than learning without experience.

Each morning you set your sights on the tasks ahead and hope that when the day is done you're farther along than when you started.

Someday what's easy might not be enough

Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.

When faced with a chaotic and convoluted situation, one always thinks that it will take centuries to sort it out. Suddenly a man appears and as if by magic, the tree we thought was doomed takes on new life and starts bearing leaves and fruits and giving shade." (Shireen in Samarkand)

Gelmek bir yolun sonuna varmak de?il, insan her menzilde bir yere var?r.

A qui donc appartient le monde ? A aucune race en particulier, à aucune nation en particulier. Il appartient, plus qu'à d'autres moments de l'Histoire, à tous ceux qui veulent s'y tailler une place.Il appartient à tous ceux qui cherchent à saisir les nouvelles règles du jeu - aussi déroutante soient-elles - pour les utiliser à leur avantage.

Dans la marche du temps, il y aura toujours, où que tu te places, un avant et un après, des choses qui seront derrière toi, et d'autres qui seront à l'horizon, et qui ne viendront à toi que lentement, jour après jour. Tu ne peux jamais tout embrasser d'un même regard. À moins que tu ne sois Dieu...

Ce serait même désolant pour un peuple, quel qu'il soit, que de vénérer son histoire plus que son avenir.

Ce n'est ni une page blanche ni une page achevée, c'est une page entrain de s'écrire.

Siento que no hayamos podido daros un mundo donde la gente no necesite protestar.

L'Histoire ne fonctionne pas ainsi. Jamais on ne revient en arrière, jamais on ne retrouve l'environnement matériel ou mental d'une époque antérieure. La marche du temps nous fait toujours pénétrer dans des zones nouvelles, mal explorées, peu balisées, et qui ne ressemblent qu'en apparence à celles qu'ont traversées les générations précédentes.

Man has survived hitherto Because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either chnage them or perish. William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)

bear the deep conviction that if, at the beginning of this century, the Orient does not manage to wake up, the West soon will not be able to sleep any more.

At every stage of the journey you arrive somewhere and with every step you can discover a hidden facet of our planet.

Peut-être même que l'humanité entière aurait suivi une autre voie que celle qui est aujourd'hui la sienne, et qui nous mène tout droit vers le naufrage.

The white man is in love with the past, with dead things, and soon he will become one.

Anyway, if Calcutta today suffers in comparison, it's not really to other cities, but principally to itself and what it used to be. Anyone who has an idea of what Calcutta once was will find that vanished Calcutta the single most insurmountable obstacle to understanding, or sympathising with, the city today.

It isn't my aim just to make a racket My aim is that things should change

One should never trouble about getting a better job. But one should do one's present job in such a manner as to qualify for a better job when it comes along." The