Quotes About Progress

Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.

Giving up something that no longer serves a purpose, or protects you, or helps you, isn't giving up at all, it's growing up.

They say not to look back, but if you're not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

Never interrupt when you're winning.

It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

I was learning that happily-ever-after was the beginning of the next chapter, not the end of the story.

To know that everyone starts on the ground. Trees, flowers, people, even the mighty sidhe must stand upon the dirt in order to move forward.

Slow is steady. Steady is smooth. Smooth is fast. Fast is deadly.

I didn't believe in happily-ever-after, but I did believe in happier-than-we'd-ever-been, because I was living it.

We all build upon our ruins.

It is not where you begin, or what gifts you begin with, but what you do with them that matters in the end.

prejudice doesn't go away just because a law changes.

Subtlety, that was what was needed. Subtle had never been my natural bent, but I had learned. Eventually.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. Joseph Campbell

No matter what you do or how bad you feel about it, life just goes on. Life doesn't give a fuck that you're sorry or upset or deranged or tormented. Life just goes on, and you gotta go on with it, or sit in the middle of the road and feel sorry for yourself.

Concentrate on what you need to do... Do step one. Begin! That's the important thing- Did you do step one? Did you actually do it?... It's not a matter of 'Can you do it?' If you do it, you're doing it.

When you raise your expectations of yourself, you create a space to grow into.

The desire for knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

I am this month one whole year older than I was this time twelve-month; and having got, as you perceive, almost into the middle of my fourth volume—and no farther than to my first day's life—'tis demonstrative that I have three hundred and sixty-four days more life to write just now, than when I first set out; so that instead of advancing, as a common writer, in my work with what I have been doing at it—on the contrary, I am just thrown so many volumes back—

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future

You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness.

I do know that living in the past only messes up your present