Progress Quotes - Page 28

• Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them

  Aldo Leopold

  Taken, Sunset, Wind

  Aldo Leopold (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.21, Oxford University Press

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• The greatest things ever done on Earth have been done little by little.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Inspirational, Done, Earth

  25 Copy quote

• Material progress and a higher standard of living bring us greater comfort and health, but do not lead to a transformation of the mind, which is the only thing capable of providing lasting peace. Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection.

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Happiness, Spiritual

  20 Copy quote

• Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wisdom, Aberration, Conformity

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Second Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.470, Vintage

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind.

  George MacDonald

  Firsts, Behinds

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13036, Delphi Classics

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  120 Copy quote

• 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

  63 Copy quote

• You’ll never progress if you never try

  Joe Budden

  Trying, Ifs

  99 Copy quote

• 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.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  13 Copy quote

• 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

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  13 Copy quote

• Rest and activity are the steps of progress.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Steps, Activity

  20 Copy quote

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

  Leon Kass

  Powerful, Hazards, Benefits

  92 Copy quote

• 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

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  11 Copy quote

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

  Glen Duncan

  People, Diseased

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

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  811 Copy quote

• 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

• 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

• 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

  244 Copy quote