Progress Quotes - Page 27

• It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.

  M. Carey Thomas

  Heaven, Sunrise, Rising

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• The one-time cotton picker was now the heavyweight champion of the world.

  Joe Louis

  Champion, Heavyweights, World

  Joe Louis, Edna Rust, Art Rust (1978). “Joe Louis: My Life”, Harcourt

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• There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Moving, Heart, Frustration

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1990). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952”, 1990.

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• We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

  Haile Selassie

  Made, Preserves

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• To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Greed, Despair

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.

  Mother Teresa

  Grace, Holiness, Holy

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t.

  James Salter

  Writing, Ideas, Effort

  "James Salter: The Greatest Writer You've Never Read" by Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. June 21, 2015.

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• It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.

  Simon Sinek

  Ideas, Long, Share

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Apr 20, 2015

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• When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

  Anne Lamott

  Scratches, Praying, Remember

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.25, Penguin

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• Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. ... 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don’t think people have that in their mental model.

  Bill Gates

  Jobs, Technology, Thinking

  "Bill Gates on Robots" by Peter Hoare, www.askmen.com.

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• By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in fact, Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse. The belief that the world can’t solve extreme poverty and disease isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful. That’s why in this year’s letter we take apart some of the myths that slow down the work. The next time you hear these myths, we hope you will do the same.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Self, Years

  "3 Myths That Block Progress For The Poor". Bill and Melinda Gates' 2014 Annual Letter, www.gatesfoundation.org. January 20, 2014.

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• It is not the child as a physical but as a psychic being that can provide a strong impetus to the betterment of mankind. It is the spirit of the child that can determine the course of human progress and lead it perhaps even to a higher form of civilization.

  Maria Montessori

  Strong, Children, Psychics

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• Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. He lived, thought and acted, inspired by the vision of humanity evolving toward a world of peace and harmony. We may ignore Gandhi at our own risk.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Humanity, Risk, Vision

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• Concepts which have proved useful for ordering things easily assume so great an authority over us, that we forget their terrestrial origin and accept them as unalterable facts. They then become labeled as 'conceptual necessities,' etc. The road of scientific progress is frequently blocked for long periods by such errors.

  Albert Einstein

  Errors, Long, Etc

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• It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement. When this comes to be realized man's journey toward higher and more lasting values will show more marked progress while the evil in him recedes into the background. Knowing that material and spiritual progress are essential to man, we must ceaselessly work for the equal attainment of both. Only then shall we be able to acquire that absolute inner calm so necessary to our well-being.

  Haile Selassie

  Spiritual, Journey, Men

  The Voice of Ethiopia, April 5, 1948.

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• Go on working, freely and furiously, you will make progress and sooner or later your worth will be recognised, if you have any.

  Paul Gauguin

  Goes On

  "Letters to His Wife and Friends".

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• There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Achievement, Connections

  Response to letter sent by Theodate Johnson on September 13, 1960. "John F. Kennedy Quotations: The Arts", www.jfklibrary.org.

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• Music is an art form that doesn't need to be explained. It needs to be performed; it needs to be felt; it needs to be listened to; it needs to progress.

  Roberta Flack

  Art, Needs, Form

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• We've ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world . In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Work, Women

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• In those same 10 years, women are getting more and more of the graduate degrees, more and more of the undergraduate degrees, and it's translating into more women in entry-level jobs, even more women in lower-level management. But there's absolutely been no progress at the top. You can't explain away 10 years. Ten years of no progress is no progress.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Jobs, Work, Women

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• Abba Moses asked Abba Sylvanus, Can a person lay a new foundation every day? The old man replied, If you work hard, you can lay a new foundation every moment. Abba Pimen said, To throw yourself before God, not to measure your progress, to leave behind all self-will; these are the instruments for the work of the soul. The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Mother, Hard Work

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• They either attach themselves to God's will, which results in their continuous progress, improvement and advancement, or they oppose God's will, are justly subjected to what He permits, and sink wretchedly from bad to worse.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Advancement, Improvement

  "The homilies".

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• No one seeing a beautifully elaborated lyre with its harmonious, orderly arrangement, and hearing the lyre's music will fail to form a notion of its craftsman-player, to recur to him in thought though ignorant of him by sight. In this way the creative power, which moves and safeguards its objects, is clear to us, though it be not grasped by the understanding. Anyone who refuses to progress this far in following instinctive proofs must be wanting in judgment. But still, whatever we imagined or figured to ourselves or reason delineated is not the reality of God.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Moving, Player

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• The illusiveness of this concept of national income is to be seen in its dependence on changes in the purchasing power of the monetary unit. The more inflation progresses, the higher rises the national income.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Income, Making Money, Purchasing

  Ludwig Von Mises (1962). “The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method”

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• One can measure the greatness and the moral progress of a nation by looking at how it treats its animals.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Animal, Greatness

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