Quotes about Progress
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Failure is God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction."
- Oprah Winfrey
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
- Oprah Winfrey
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.
- Oprah Winfrey
Neither secular progress nor secular progressives have brought the West where they once promised. Nor can they.
- Os Guinness
Science is the record of dead religions.
- Oscar Wilde
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.
- Oswald Chambers
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
- Oswald Chambers
Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. "If any man will do . . . , he shall know .
- Oswald Chambers
Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been. "If anyone wills to do His will, he shall know . . ." (John 7:17).
- Oswald Chambers