Progress Quotes - Page 31

• Many bodybuilders sell themselves short. Erroneously attributing their lack of satisfactory progress to a poverty of the requisite genetic traits, instead of to their irrational training and dietary practices, they give up training. Don't make the same mistake

  Mike Mentzer

  Giving Up, Mistake, Practice

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• We crave explanations for most everything, but innovation and progress happen when we allow ourselves to embrace uncertainty.

  Simon Sinek

  Innovation, Embrace, Explanation

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2011

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• To make progress you must actually get started. The key is to take a step today.

  Jim Rohn

  Keys, Today, Steps

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• Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.

  William Wilberforce

  Exercise, Men, God Love

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• Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.

  Thomas Cogswell Upham

  Growth, Gourds, Divine

  Thomas Cogswell Upham (1844). “Principles of the Interior Or Hidden Life: Designed Particularly for the Consideration of Those who are Seeking Assurance of Faith and Perfect Love”, p.283

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• Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Real, Community, Political

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• PALACE, n. A fine and costly residence, particularly that of a great official. The residence of a high dignitary of the Christian Church is called a palace; that of the Founder of his religion was known as a field, or wayside. There is progress.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Christian, Religion, Church

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics

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• Our vision is beclouded and the pathway of our progress is obstructed until we come to know that god can and does express as Good in every person and every situation.

  Ernest Holmes

  Vision, Pathways, Doe

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• Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when we regard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in an unending life, but as a part of the continuously recurring rhythm of progress-as inevitable, as natural and benevolent as sleep.

  J. M. E. McTaggart

  Death, Sleep, Natural

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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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• Just as women's rights are human rights, women's progress is human progress.

  Hillary Clinton

  Rights, Humans, Human Rights

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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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• Progress is not achieved by luck or accident, but by working on yourself daily.

  Epictetus

  Luck, Working On Yourself, Accidents

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

  Simon Sinek

  Obstacles, Offers, Solutions

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• If you're not uncomfortable on a daily basis, you're not making much progress.

  Robin Sharma

  Uncomfortable, Bases, Ifs

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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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• There are no limits to growth and human progress
  when men and women are free to follow their dreams.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream, Men, Growth

  Second Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 1985, Rotunda of the Capitol, Washington D.C.

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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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• The usual terminology of political language is stupid. What is 'left' and what is 'right'? Why should Hitler be 'right' and Stalin, his temporary friend, be 'left'? Who is 'reactionary' and who is 'progressive'? Reaction against an unwise policy is not to be condemned. And progress towards chaos is not to be commended.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Stupid, Political Language, Usual

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• To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

  Lewis Carroll

  Helping Others, Giving, Goal

  Lewis Carroll, Morton Norton Cohen, Roger Lancelyn Green (1979). “The letters of Lewis Carroll”, Oxford University Press, USA

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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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