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“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
Mark Victor Hansen Quotes |
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“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Quotes |
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“Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”
Albert Einstein Quotes |
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“Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes |
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“He who moves not forward, goes backward”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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“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.”
C.S. Lewis Quotes |
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“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes |
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“Doubt can only be removed by action.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes |
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“Westward the star of empire takes its way.”
John Quincy Adams Quotes Source: in an oration at Plymouth, Massachusetts
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“All rising to great place is by a winding stair.”
John Quincy Adams Quotes Source: in an oration at Plymouth, Massachusetts
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“Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like
clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set
to true time.”
Henry Ward Beecher Quotes Source: Life Thoughts
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“Westward the course of empire takes its way;
The four first Acts already past,
A fifth shall close the Drama with the day;
Time's noblest offspring is the last.”
Bishop George Berkeley Quotes Source: Verses, on the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America
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“What is art
But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
When, graduating up in a spiral line
Of still expanding and ascending gyres,
It pushed toward the intense significance
Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?
Art's life--and where we live, we suffer and toil.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. IV, l. 1,150)
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“Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone,
Not God's, and not the beast's;
God is, they are,
Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: A Death in the Desert
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“Like plants in mines, which never saw the sun,
But dream of him, and guess where he may be,
And do the best to climb, and get to him.”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: Paracelsus (last page)
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“Progress is
The law of life, man is not
Man as yet.”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: Paracelsus (pt. V)
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“A man prepared has half fought the battle.
[Sp., Hombre apercebido medio combatido.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes Source: Don Quixote (2, 7)
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“All things journey: sun and moon,
Morning, noon, and afternoon,
Night and all her stars;
'Twixt the east and western bars
Round they journey,
Come and go!
We go with them!”
George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) Quotes Source: The Spanish Gypsy (bk. III, song)
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“What we call "progress " is the exchange of one nuisance for
another nuisance.”
Henry Havelock Ellis Quotes Source: Impressions and Comments
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“And striving to be Man, the worm
Mounts through all the spires of form.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Mayday
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“With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three
thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation
Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist
that there is no such thing as progress.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Mayday
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“So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings,
goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make
sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of
Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.”
Henry George Quotes Source: Progress and Poverty--Introductory--The Problem
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“Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train.
Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty
miles an hour and you're just sitting still?”
Henry George Quotes Source: Progress and Poverty--Introductory--The Problem
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