#ogre

It's good to look at life from the bottom up so you can see that things have risen above what they once were. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#life #life-lessons #outlook #perspective #progress

The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#civilization #dies #more #place #progresses

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

#anything #approach #brings #each #happiness

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#anyone #become #becoming #blame #business

However, even during the preparations for action, we laid our plans in such a manner that should there be progress through diplomatic negotiation, we would be well prepared to cancel operations at the latest moment that communication technology would have permitted. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#cancel #communication #diplomatic #during #even

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. ↗

— Lionel Trilling

#being #equal #equals #every #except

Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#fundamental #ideas #progress

People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress. ↗

— Dale Turner

#boldness #brakes #lack #make #mistakes

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. ↗

— Voltaire

#man #ocean #progress #rapid #rivers

It was progressively more difficult to find work in the theatre, as well. ↗

— Andrzej Wajda

#find #more #progressively #theatre #well