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He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.
George Orwell
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
James Allen
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
Alexander Pope
When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward.
Swedish Proverb
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.
Stephen Bayley, Commerce and Cul
Judge of thine improvement, not by what thou speakest or writest, but by the firmness of thy mind, and the government of thy passions and affections.
Thomas Fuller
It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.
Norman Cousins
Too much action with too little intent makes for wasteful exertion of energy and the confusion between movement and progress.
Steve Maraboli
The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.
Henry David Thoreau
It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
Gaston Bachelard
He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell
By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?
Jackie Mason
Be not afraid of going slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.
