Quotes about Progress

On our worst days, we still look for something we've done toward recovery. Sometimes the best we can do is feel good about what we did not do.

Struggling is okay. Back-stepping is okay. Small bits of progress are not only okay, they're admirable.

Where we are today is where we're meant to be. It's where we need to be to get where we're going tomorrow. And that place we're going tomorrow will be better than any we've been before

reactionaries.

The bottom line was that we have only ourselves to blame. We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities

The question is not whether a nation makes mistakes; the question is whether a nation learns from its mistakes, builds on that knowledge it gains over time, and grows in wisdom. Those nations who learn from their mistakes will become wise, while those who repeat the same mistakes over and over again, expecting a different result, are foolish.

Two hundred years ago when slavery was going on it was illegal to educate a slave, particularly to teach them to read. Why do you think that was? Because when you educate a man, you liberate a man.

One day, you've found your chosen field, and you're already moving into it.

I had focused on the failure because I had not yet acquired the wisdom necessary to attain a better perspective.

Sometimes regulations hinder and need to be broken or ignored.

I believe that many of our pressing racial problems will be taken care of when we who are among the minorities will stand on our own feet and refuse to look to anybody else to save us from our situation.

God is thoroughly committed to finishing the masterpiece He started in us. And that process means one major thing: change.