Quotes about Progress

Forget the past.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

I never lose, I either win or learn

Never forget that a saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.

One day, George Mbekela paid a visit to my mother. "Your son is a clever young fellow," he said. "He should go to school." My mother remained silent. No one in my family had ever attended school and my mother was unprepared for Mbekela's suggestion. But she did relay it to my father, who despite—or perhaps because of—his own lack of education immediately decided that his youngest son should go to school. The

Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation.

I never lose. I either win or I learn.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

Change yourself and your work will seem different.

We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.

Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".