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Quotes About Progress

You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Remember, light and shadow never stand still.
~ Benjamin West
Failure's a natural part of life.
~ John Malkovich
I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
~ Martin Freeman
You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.
~ Leon Brown
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
~ Anatole France
Looking back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle.
~ Jack Paar
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
~ Richard Peck
Going on with life, it only gets more and more intense as time goes by - and the challenges only multiply.
~ Martha Reeves
Life is not having and getting, but being and becoming
~ Matthew Arnold
I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.
~ Shawn Ashmore
Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
~ Lee Iacocca
You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.
~ Brandi Chastain
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!
~ LaToya Jackson
Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.
~ John Polkinghorne
At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.
~ Janis Ian
Your real purpose in life is to develop yourself. To successfully do this you must always be working toward a goal.
~ Bob Proctor
The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.
~ Konrad Lorenz
There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same.
~ Norman Mailer
You're progressing on something and that's what it's all about. You wanna keep moving, having a progress in your life.
~ Ueli Steck
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
~ Indira Gandhi