Progressive Growth Quotes

You cannot learn to fly by flying. First you must learn to walk, to run, to climb, to dance.

If our country is to advance, let it be upon the legs of lessons well-learned.

… evolution over revolution.

They [Western Nations] enjoy freedom, prosperity, and peace. They live happily year after year. Their national life is millennial. Commerce, developed; military strong; industry and technology grew progressively. Political situation and scholarship are perfect. I am resentful that my country is by far more miserable than the Western nations. I am regretful that China, who had enjoyed a glorious past, has now become desperate. The nature of my people was originally not bad. Why could not they achieve higher accomplishments than the white people?

All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!

Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Growth is always a gradual process, a bridge slowly crossed and not a corner sharply turned.

The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.

There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement.

Whether or not you can become great at something, you can always become better.

The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.

Let's build women's football from the bottom before we get to the top; it's not about building from the top to get to the bottom. We can talk about the Etihad and Man United's ground, the Theatre of Dreams, in a few years' time. Let's fill the Academy Stadiums, the Kingsmeadows, first of all.

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

[Reporting on America:] It's progressive growth ... before the century has elapsed will have changed the ... colonial system of the universe and the relative position of all civilized society.

Ultimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing.

The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.

The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

You're not ever going to get it done. Every time you evaluate contrast and conclude and then line up your Energy and allow it into your experience... at the same time you are achieving the result that you intended, you also achieve a new perspective from which to intend. You can't stand still. In every moment, there is a whole new set of stuff... new ideas, new desires being born.