Quotes about Progress

Small steps add up to complete big journeys.

If you want to rise, drop everyone that is weighing you down.

Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

I don't know if I'm more confident than ever before, because I definitely had confidence when I was starting out. Maybe I have less confidence now that I did then.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, 'So what's the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.' Most of her lifetime, it's true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

I definitely wanted the second record to be a much more grandiose thing. I wanted to push myself and make a big statement.

Everything happens at one step at a time.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured