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All progress is precarious, and the solution
of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Related topics: Wisdom
Every relationship is just so tenuous and precarious.
- Larry David
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Progress is impossible without change,
and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- George Bernard Shaw
Coming together is a beginning;
keeping together is progress;
working together is success.
- Henry Ford
The best road to progress is freedom's road.
- John F. Kennedy
I was taught that the way of progress
is neither swift nor easy.
- Marie Curie
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it,
while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill.
The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation
is the same as in the life of the individual.
Pessimism kills the instinct that
urges men to struggle against poverty,
ignorance and crime, and dries up
all the fountains of joy in the world.
- Helen Keller
He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
- Harold Wilson
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter
than our progress in education.
The human mind is our fundamental resource.
- John F. Kennedy
Social progress can be measured
by the social position of the female sex.
- Karl Marx
(German philosopher and political economist
whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism)
Technological progress is like an axe
in the hands of a pathological criminal.
- Albert Einstein
The natural progress of things is for liberty
to yield and government to gain ground.
- Thomas Jefferson
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.
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.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace,
then progress in virtue is progress in each of these
for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us,
progress is always an approach toward it.
- Epictetus
In my case, Pilgrim's Progress consisted
in my having to climb down a thousand ladders
until I could reach out my hand
to the little clod of earth that I am.
- Carl Jung
I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions,
but laws and institutions must go hand in hand
with the progress of the human mind.
As that becomes more developed, more enlightened,
as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered
and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances,
institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.
- Thomas Jefferson [inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial]
I believe in intuition and inspiration.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For knowledge is limited,
whereas imagination embraces the entire world,
stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
- Albert Einstein
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science,
for they often endure long; but false views,
if supported by some evidence, do little harm,
for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
- Charles Darwin
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let the refining and improving of your own life
keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You Create Your Own Reality.
- Anonymous
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You uncover what is,
when you get rid of what isn't.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
WHY do you care what THEY think?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
You must unlearn what you have learned.
- the character Yoda in the movie Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
If you begin to understand what you are
without trying to change it,
then what you are undergoes a transformation.
- J. Krishnamurti
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
No one can give you freedom but you.
- Byron Katie
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
If you want peace, stop fighting.
If you want peace of mind,
stop fighting with your thoughts.
- Peter McWilliams
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
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