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The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. ~ Barbara Hall
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I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. ~ Abraham Lincoln
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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
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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
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The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. ~ Joseph Joubert
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Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first base. ~ Frederick Wilcox
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Progress, 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
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Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress. ~ Barack Obama
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All change is not growth; as all movement is not forward. ~ Ellen Glasgow
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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.
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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
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Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. ~ Henry Ford
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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. ~ Benjamin Franklin
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ~ Thomas Edison
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If I had permitted my failures — or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success — to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress. ~ Calvin Coolidge
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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. ~ Charles Kettering
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Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change — this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. ~ Bruce Barton
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring. ~ Henry Miller
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People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while. ~ Marilyn vos Savant
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
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The power to question is the basis of all human progress. ~ Indira Gandhi
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is not strange... to mistake change for progress. ~ Millard Fillmore
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He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ~ Harold Wilson
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A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress. ~ Bryant H. McGill
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Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress. ~ Bryant H. McGill
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When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. ~ Orison Sweet Marden
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Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ~ Nicholas M. Butler
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Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies. ~ Robert F. Kennedy
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