Quotes about Progress
When a sense of dissatisfaction persists, that means it was placed there by God for one purpose only: you need to change everything and move forward.
- Paulo Coelho
Keep the bicycle moving, because if you stop pedalling, you will fall off.
- Paulo Coelho
We may think at times that the only thing life offers us tomorrow, is to repeat everything we did today. But if we pay close attention, we will see that no two days are alike.
- Paulo Coelho
The feet of labourers, pilgrims and explorers smoothed these stones. The stones were changed and the travellers were too.
- Paulo Coelho
The act of living one's own destiny includes a series of stages that are far beyond our understanding, whose objective is always to... make us learn the lessons necessary to fulfill our own destiny.
- Paulo Coelho
As practice makes perfect, I cannot but make progress; each drawing one makes, each study one paints, is a step forward.
- Vincent Van Gogh
The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
- Malcolm X
There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.
- Leon Battista Alberti
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
- Pablo Picasso
Not everything you do is going to be a masterpiece, but you get art there and you try and sometimes it really happens. The other times you're just stretching your soul.
- Maya Angelou
Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.
- John Bunyan
The only way you can grow is to let yourself make mistakes and create contradictions. As we learn new things, some of our old attitudes will change.
- Nikki Giovanni