Quotes About Progress

Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.

Great men are necessary for our life, in order that the movement of world history can free itself sporadically, by fits and starts, from obsolete ways of living and inconsequential talk.

You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let's dig deep.'

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

The best people in the world aren't those who never fail - but those who fail and learn something from it. I hope that your goal in life isn't to slide safely into death not having screwed up much.

Life is an endless process of self-discovery.

Every day you must unlearn the ways that hold you back. You must rid yourself of negativity, so you can learn to fly.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

I don't really know how to live my life, just like lots of other people don't. I guess you just learn along the way.

I always dreamed of making it in baseball, but life has moved pretty quickly for me.

I couldn't bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.

I have never spent a day in my adult life where I didn't learn something, and if there is a born-again quality to me, that's it.

The traditional view of the sanctity of human life will collapse under pressure from scientific, technological and demographic developments.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Don't worry about looking good - worry about achieving your goals.

I didn't like where I once was, so I promised myself I wouldn't be back there.

Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.

I've learned in my life that you really don't know what's possible until you're already doing it.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.

The most intelligent thing you can possibly do with your life is to grow.