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  • Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

    Horse   Crazy   Moving  
  • You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

  • You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.

  • Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

    Wise   Journey   Joy  
    Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”
  • You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

  • The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1156, e-artnow
  • Goethe has made a remark upon the perfectability of the human mind, which is full of sagacity: It is always advancing, but in a spiral line.

    "Germany". Book by Madame de Stael, 1813.
  • It is the peaceful one who is observant. It is peace that gives him the power to observe keenly. It is the peaceful one, therefore, who can conceive, for peace helps him to conceive. It is the peaceful who can contemplate; one who has no peace cannot contemplate properly. Therefore, all things pertaining to spiritual progress in life depend upon peace.

    Hazrat Inayat Khan (1973). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Way of Illumination”, p.307, Library of Alexandria
  • All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1156, e-artnow
  • Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

    Change   Work   Struggle  
    Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume
  • When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

  • Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . .

    Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume
  • The greatest progress in life is when you know your limitations, and then you have the courage to drop them.

  • All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1156, e-artnow
  • I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

    Fashion   Ocean   Reality  
  • Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row
  • Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

    Henry Miller (1959). “The Henry Miller Reader”, p.251, New Directions Publishing
  • The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

    Alfred North Whitehead, David Ray Griffin (1978). “Process and reality: an essay in cosmology”, Free Pr
  • Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 13, 2017
  • Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

    Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.52, Cambridge University Press
  • We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

  • Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

    Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.
  • Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.

    "Iyanla Vanzant: Clarity, Forgiveness Key To Tackling Big Transitions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 28, 2014.
  • Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

    "Alterquest: the Alternative Quest for Answers". Book by Karen Fiala, 2006.
  • To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

    Agnes Martin (2005). “Schriften”, Cantz
  • Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

    Moving   Progress   Kind  
    Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.74
  • Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

    "Everybody's political what's what?" by George Bernard Shaw, Chapter XXXVII, (p. 330), 1944.
  • But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.

  • Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

  • There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

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