Progress Quotes - Page 21

• I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.

  Mas Oyama

  Goal, Way, Path

  162 Copy quote

• As your training progresses, always remember that the key to gaining the ability for spontaneous and creative technique lies in good ukemi.

  Mitsugi Saotome

  Lying, Keys, Creative

  Mitsugi Saotome (1989). “The Principles of Aikido”, Shambhala Publications

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• Truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues of the world of humanity. Without truthfulness, progress and success in all the worlds of God are impossible for a soul. When this holy attribute is established in man, all the divine qualities will also become realized.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Men, Soul, Humanity

  8 Copy quote

• Spiritual progress is when on becomes free not only of the knowledge which is inevitably from the past, but also from the need to know... and a desire to predict and control.

  Ravi Ravindra

  Spiritual, Past, Desire

  9 Copy quote

• Perhaps all human progress stems from the tension between two basic drives: to have just what everyone else has and to have what no one has.

  Judith Stone

  Two, Stem, Tension

  Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking.

  Freda Adler

  Asking, May, Problem

  45 Copy quote

• Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader, mathematician, or baseball player. Our goal is to help each student become as special as she can be as an individual--not to be more special than the kid sitting next to her.

  Rafe Esquith

  Baseball, Children, Kids

  Rafe Esquith (2007). “Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56”, p.80, Penguin

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• To progress is always to begin always to begin again

  Martin Luther

  Begin Again

  12 Copy quote

• Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families; it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.

  Helen Clark

  Girl, Women, Equality

  56 Copy quote

• Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As long as we only talk about economic classes, profit, salaries, and production, and as long as we believe that real human progress is determined by a particular system of distribution of wealth and goods, then we are not even close to what is essential.

  Julius Evola

  Real, Believe, Class

  243 Copy quote

• Education [is] not an end in itself but [is] the first step in a progress which should continue during a lifetime.

  Caroline Pratt

  Firsts, Steps, Lifetime

  Caroline Pratt (2014). “I Learn from Children: An Adventure in Progressive Education”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

  Dorothy Height

  Caring, Needs, Credit

  203 Copy quote

• Truth is we must plant and we must water if we are to make progress with our children in holiness but only the Holy Spirit can change our children more and more into the likeness of Jesus. Our problem is we tend to depend upon our planting and watering rather than the Lord.

  Jerry Bridges

  Jesus, Children, Water

  6 Copy quote

• Humanism is a philosophy of joyous service for the greater good of all humanity, of application of new ideas of scientific progress for the benefit of all.

  Linus Pauling

  Philosophy, Ideas, Humanity

  32 Copy quote

• Nobody has the right to shield any idea as so sacred it can’t be challenged. ... Almost all human progress is driven by people who stood up and said ‘I disagree’ with this idea that society at the time considered to be the most precious.’

  Glenn Greenwald

  Ideas, People, Shields

  12 Copy quote

• Here's the thing. When we talk about race relations in America or racial progress, it's all nonsense. There are no race relations. White people were crazy. Now they're not as crazy. To say that black people have made progress would be to say they deserve what happened to them before.

  Chris Rock

  Crazy, Race, White

  Interview with Frank Rich, www.vulture.com. November 30, 2014.

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Law, Hands, Mind

  Thomas Jefferson (1998). “Thomas Jefferson: His Words and Vision”, p.18, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Growth, Degradation, Well Being

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3533, Manonmani Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Humans, Human Progress, Disobedience

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2250, Manonmani Publishers

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• All progression is in the relative world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  World, Progression, Relative

  Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All real progress must be slow.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2155, Manonmani Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Mean, Thinking, Achieve

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3031, Manonmani Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Country, Spread

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Saradananda (1964). “Swamiji's Message to a Disciple: Reprint from the Talks with Swami Vivekananda”

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Believe, Circles, Growing

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2232, Manonmani Publishers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Evil, Brutes

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Selections from Swami Vivekananda”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source