Progress Quotes - Page 23

• Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.

  Jim Gerlach

  Country, Rebirth, Reincarnation

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• Our agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection. Without agency, none of us could grow and develop by learning from our mistakes and errors and those of others.... I do not really think the devil can make us do anything. Certainly he can tempt and he can deceive, but he has no authority over us that we do not give him.

  James E. Faust

  Father, Mistake, Thinking

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• Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation.

  Theodor Adorno

  Writing, Self, Long

  "Cultural Criticism and Society". Essay by Theodor Adorno (1949), reprinted in his book "Prisms", 1967.

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• Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Effort, Meditation, Strive

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.266, Tharpa Publications US

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• Rather than becoming discouraged, know that encountering a wall is proof of the progress that you have made so far.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Wall, Becoming, Discouraged

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• In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die.

  Victor Hugo

  Past, Giving, Disease

  Victor Hugo (1862). “Saint Denis”, p.100

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• Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

  Victor Hugo

  Struggle, Heart, Ideas

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• To achieve happiness I advocate four major principles, the principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress.

  Ryuho Okawa

  Happiness, Reflection, Self

  Ryuho Okawa (2005). “The Philosophy of Progress: How to Develop Infinite Prosperity”, p.9, Lantern Books

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• Most progress is most failure.

  Robert Browning

  Failure

  Robert Browning (1830). “An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry”, p.69

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• In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Reading, Saws, Etc

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• Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

  Henry George

  Fighting, Water, Society

  Henry George (2006). “Progress and Poverty”, p.358, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance.

  Simon Sinek

  Obstacles, Offers, Solutions

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• How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Space, Mind

  "Landmark US library set to close" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2011.

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• To make the quickest progress, you don't have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps-and keep on taking them. In Japan, they call this approach kaizen, which literally translates as 'continual improvement.' Using kaizen, great and lasting success is achieved through small, consistent steps. It turns out that slow and steady is the best way to overcome your resistance to change.

  Marci Shimoff

  Baby, Japan, Overcoming

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• That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Mind, Use, Behinds

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• I have never witnessed poverty like I did in Haiti. The kind that is so deep and wide-reaching that it feels impossible to make a difference. But I found that lives can and are being changed. It may take a lot of work and time but Concern has, and continues to make, serious progress because they stayed long after the world moved on.

  Toni Collette

  Differences, Long, Making A Difference

  "Haiti Is Transforming, But Grinding Poverty Remains for Many" by Toni Collette, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2014.

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• Set your goals-without goals you cannot measure your progress. But don’t become frustrated because there are no obvious victories. Remind yourself that striving can be more important than arriving.

  Marvin J. Ashton

  Goal, Frustrated, Victory

  Marvin J. Ashton (1987). “Be of Good Cheer”, Deseret Book Co

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• Curiosity is essential for progress. Only when we look to worlds beyond our own can we really know if there's room for improvement.

  Simon Sinek

  Curiosity, Looks, World

  Twitter post from Aug 12, 2010

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• Geniuses must never die, the progress of mankind depends on us

  Salvador Dali

  Genius, Mankind, Dies

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• The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself.

  Dalai Lama

  Reading, Mind, Realization

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Jeffrey Hopkins (2003). “How to Practice: The Way to a Meaningful Life”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!

  Bruce Lee

  Thinking, Mma, Looks

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Letters of the Dragon: An Anthology of Bruce Lee's Correspondence with Family, Friends, and Fans 1958-1973”, Tuttle Publishing

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• An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

  Nelson Mandela

  Real, Discipline, Organisation

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• All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Spirit, Landmarks

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Emotions are the fuel and the mind is the pilot which together propel the ship of civilized progress.

  Jim Rohn

  Mind, Together, Fuel

  Jim Rohn (2013). “7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher”, p.150, Harmony

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• In running, it doesn't matter how fast or slow you are relative to anyone else. You set your own pace and you measure your own progress. You can't lose this race because you're not running against anyone else. You're only running against yourself, and as long as you are running, you are winning.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Winning, Race

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