Quotes about Progress
He who thinks that he is finished, is finished. How true. Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons.
— Henri Nouwen
Prayer opens our eyes for ourselves and through clarification enables us to step forward in the direction of hope.
— Henri Nouwen
If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill.
— Henry B. Eyring
We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities
— Henry B. Eyring
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
— Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some way, that we feel like new men in the old, and that to retain it would be like keeping new wine in old bottles.
— Henry David Thoreau
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life. It is never isolated, or simply added as treasure to our stock. When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
— Henry David Thoreau
Read your fate, see what is before you, and walk on into futurity.
— Henry David Thoreau
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
— Henry David Thoreau
Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone? We
— Henry David Thoreau
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have learned that the swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.
— Henry David Thoreau