Progress Quotes - Page 20

• Only those who do not fill the places they are holding slow the progress of the world

  Wallace D. Wattles

  World

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

  Kofi Annan

  Children, Block, Mean

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• Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

  Kofi Annan

  Children, Mean, Men

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• Violence against women is perhaps the most shameful human rights violation, and it is perhaps the most pervasive. It knows no boundaries of geography, culture or wealth. As long as it continues, we cannot claim to be making real progress towards equality, development and peace

  Kofi Annan

  Real, Rights, Long

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• The labor movement is people. Our unions have brought millions of men and women together, made them members one of another, and given them common tools for common goals. Their goals are goals for all America - and their enemies are the enemies for progress. The two cannot be separated.

  John F. Kennedy

  Men, Two, America

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• When you do the right thing, enjoy it! When you take positive actions, enjoy them. After all, they are leading you toward positive results. Pat yourself on the back. Truly enjoy the fact that you're making positive progress, and the negative temptations will have no power over you.

  Ralph Marston

  Temptation, Over You, Facts

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• You’ll never progress if you never try

  Joe Budden

  Trying, Ifs

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• Where progress has been made, wherever any kind of injustice has been overturned, it’s been because people acted as citizens, and not as politicians. They didn’t just moan. They worked, they acted, they organized, they rioted if necessary to bring their situation to the attention of people in power. And that’s what we have to do today.

  Howard Zinn

  People, Citizens, Attention

  Howard Zinn (2012). “Howard Zinn Speaks: Collected Speeches, 1963-2009”, p.264, Haymarket Books

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• So, good news/bad news: good news that I'm progressing; bad news that life is short and art is long.

  George Saunders

  Art, Life Is Short, Long

  Interview with Andy Ward, www.slate.com. January 7, 2013.

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• If there is no struggle, there is no progress....This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

  Frederick Douglass

  Struggle, Tyrants, Demand

  Speech, Canandaigua, N.Y., 4 Aug. 1857

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• Gilbert has established herself as a straight-up storyteller who dares us into adventures of worldly discovery, and this novel stands as a winning next act. “The Signature of All Things” is a bracing homage to the many natures of genius and the inevitable progress of ideas, in a world that reveals its best truths to the uncommonly patient minds.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Truth, Adventure, Winning

  "The Botany of Desire" by Barbara Kingsolver, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2013.

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• You can achieve almost any goal you set for yourself as long as you have the discipline to pay the price to do what you need to do and to never give up. You can make excuses or you can make progress. You choose.

  Brian Tracy

  Giving Up, Pay The Price, Discipline

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• Launch and learn. Everything is progress.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Danielle LaPorte (2012). “The Fire Starter Sessions: A Soulful + Practical Guide to Creating Success on Your Own Terms”, p.307, Harmony

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• Leaders learn to leverage the problems that never go away in a way to create progress for the organization.

  Andy Stanley

  Organization, Leader, Going Away

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• You cannot make progress with excuses.

  Cam Newton

  Excuse

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• We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess. ... We will never make any progress in becoming more like Jesus unless we permit God to cut us open, search our hearts, try us, know our thoughts and then change us from the inside. Only then can we become real according to the Word of God.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Spiritual, Jesus, Real

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• Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.

  Dalai Lama

  Happiness, Being Happy, Spiritual

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• Rest and activity are the steps of progress.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Steps, Activity

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• The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

  Leon Kass

  Powerful, Hazards, Benefits

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• Amid all change, we desire something permanent; amid all variety, something stable; amid all progress, some central unity of life; something which deepens as we ascend; which roots itself as we advance; which grows more and more tenacious of the old, while becoming more and more open to the new.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Roots, Unity, Desire

  james freeman clarke (1864). “the hour whic conveth and now is sermons preached in indiana place chapel boston”, p.114

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• Parents can make us distrust ourselves. To them, we seem always to be works-in-progress.

  Frank Pittman

  Parent, Distrust, Seems

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• Do not allow past experiences to be imprinted on your mind.  Perform asanas each time with a fresh mind and with a fresh approach.  If you are repeating what you did before, you are living in the memory, so you are living in the past.  That means you don't want to proceed beyond the experience of the past.  Retaining that memory is saying, 'Yesterday I did it like that.' When I ask, 'Is there anything new from what I did yesterday?' then there is progress.  Am I going forward or am I going backward? Then you understand how to create dynamism in a static asana.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Memories, Mean, Past

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• I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

  Glen Duncan

  People, Diseased

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf”, p.67, Vintage

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• It’s a similar feeling from being in a community of punk rockers as a teenager and the feeling I still get today when I’m in a community of skeptical scientists. The idea with both is that you challenge authority, you challenge the dogma. You challenge the doctrine in order to make progress. The thrill of science is the process. It’s a social process. It’s a process of collective discovery. It’s debate, it’s experimentation and it’s verification of claims that might be false. It’s the greatest foundation for a society.

  Greg Graffin

  Teenager, Discovery, Order

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• You must every day make higher ground. You must deny yourself to make progress with God. You must refuse every- thing that is not pure and holy. God wants you pure in heart. He wants you to have an intense desire after holiness... Two things will get you to leap out of yourselves into the promises of God today. One is purity, and the other is FAITH, which is kindled more and more BY PURITY.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Heart, Two, Higher Ground

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