Quotes about Progress
Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead. Philippians 3:13
— Henry Blackaby
Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.
— Herman Melville
If you went to your closet today, would you pull out the same outfit you wore 10 or 15 years ago? You wear feelings and faith differently as well.
— Amy Grant
Actors didn't use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Yes, in fact, it's hard to believe this, but it was almost 18 years ago when I first got the idea.
— Tim LaHaye
Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
— Barack Obama
Life is a process, and you just take it a day at a time, and you can't live in tomorrow, and you can't reach back and be in yesterday. No matter how much you want to, you just have what's right there in front of you.
— Amy Grant
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.
— Maya Angelou
I don't tell people, 'You're okay the way that you are.' That's not the right story. The right story is, 'You're way less than you could be.'
— Jordan Peterson
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
— John Wooden
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
— CS Lewis