Quotes about Progress
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
- Jim Rohn
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
- Jimmy Carter
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
- Jimmy Carter
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.
- Jimmy Carter
Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
- Anne Lamott
A hundred years for now? All new people.
- Anne Lamott
Count that day lost whose low descending sun. Views from thy hand no worthy action done.
- Anonymous
"Dead last" is greater than "did not finish" which trumps "did not start."
- Anonymous
Simply because we do not run across goal lines, slam dunk basketballs, or hit home runs, doesn't mean we can't change the score.
- Anonymous
I'm glad to take on the role of a domestic because many of your black leaders, your educators, your professionals came from domestic parents who made sacrifices to see that their children didn't go through what they did.
- Esther Rolle
Civilization and profit go hand in hand.
- Calvin Coolidge
Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.
- George Eliot