Quotes about Progress

Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.

Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair—and it's not there.

In retrospect, the second cause for delay makes less feminist sense: the long popularity of assertiveness training. Though most women needed to be more assertive (or even more aggressive, though that word was considered too controversial), many assertiveness courses taught women how to play the existing game, not how to change the rules.

Between what is and what could be?

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; A movement is only people moving.

Go forward in life with a twinkle in your eye and a smile on your face, but with great purpose in heart.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

You can't plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious.

No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the livs of those within our circle of influence.

Let us stand a little taller, if you don't, you will never strengthen yourself