Quotes about Progress

With mental health, it's not like there's a box where you're healthy and another box where you've got a mental illness. You try to stay at the healthy end of the continuum, and watch as you move, and I've been able to do that.

I'm going to mess up. But I'm going to get back, you know, and get after it and try to do better the next day.

The message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ is that we can and must expect to become better as long as we live.

If Microsoft had never existed... The industry would probably be very fragmented.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won't, for he sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.

Failure is never fatal. But failure to change can and might be.

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

If the human species has been able to make any progress, it is because of our heart of love and compassion. We need to learn from compassionate beings how to develop the practice of deep observation for the sake of others. Then others will be able to learn from us the way to live in the present and see the impermanent and selfless nature of all that is. This insight will lighten suffering.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.