Quotes about Progress

The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

Try to discover The road to success And you'll seek but never find, But blaze your own path And the road to success Will trail right behind.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

The most valuable lesson man has learned from his dog is to kick a few blades of grass over it and move on.

Daugeliui žmoni? mokykla yra pabaiga, o ne pradžia.

The Woman had told her that Tomorrow never comes, but Elizabeth knows better. It will come sometime. Some beautiful morning she will just wake up and find it is Tomorrow. Not Today but Tomorrow. And then things will happen…wonderful things.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new a day with no mistakes in it

Changes ain't totally pleasant but they're excellent things... Two years is about long enough for things to stay exactly the same. If they stayed put any longer they might grow mossy.

Ye've only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Oh, I don't know. I've come so far short in so many things. I haven't done what I meant to do when I began to teach last fall. I haven't lived up to my ideals. None of us ever do, said Mrs. Allan with a sigh. But then, Anne, you know what Lowell says, 'Not failure but low aim is crime.' We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. Hold fast to your ideals, Anne.

Here's to our futures, she cried, I wish that every day of our lives may be better than the one that went before. An extravagant wish—a very wish of youth, commented Uncle Blair, and yet in spite of its extravagance, a wish that will come true if you are true to yourselves. In that case, every day WILL be better than all that went before—but there will be many days, dear lad and lass, when you will not believe it.