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Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing.
Source Unknown
The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.
Owen Davies
When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
Henry David Thoreau
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price.
Alexander Herzen
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.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Samuel Johnson
...love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.
Paulo Coelho
Live to live and you will learn to live.
Proverb, Portuguese Proverb
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Oscar Wilde
All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud, you have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The further you progress, the higher the ideal of perfection toward which you strive rises.
Leo Tolstoy
Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.
William Ellery Channing
All progress occurs because people dare to be different.
Harry Millner
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Suddenly this is all too hard. I am tired of putting up walls. I want someone with the strength - and the honesty - to break them down.
Jodi Picoult
The purpose of fear is to raise your awareness not to stop your progress.
Steve Maraboli
There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.
Ronald Reagan
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
Thomas J. Watson
