Quotes about Progression
As the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon covered by those which come after.
- Marcus Aurelius
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
- Samuel Johnson
Progress is the life-style of man.
- Victor Hugo
It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million.
- Carl Sagan
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
- John Oates
remember this: there is no standing still in the Christian life. Either we are advancing toward salvation, or we are drifting away to destruction. Drifting is mortal danger.
- John Piper
I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.
- John Quincy Adams
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
- John Wesley
as life is a story, so also is spiritual formation a story—a journey from earth to heaven.
- Scot McKnight
T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.
- Mark Twain
everyone desires to achieve old age, that is to say a condition in which one can say: Today is bad, and day by day it will get worse - until at last the worst of all arrives.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
It is a matter of common experience that things get more disordered and chaotic with time.
- Stephen Hawking