#progress

Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#belief #between #cycle #determination #development

One of the greatest source of danger in life is to find the right path and stand on it. If you find the right way, run on it, don't stand on it. Something may be coming from behind; it will surely crush you when you are static. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#crush #danger #extra #extra-mile #food-for-thought

Regardless of the difficulties we may face individually, in our families, in our communities and in our nation, the old adage is still true - you can make excuses or you can make progress, but you cannot make both! The America I know doesn't make excuses. ↗

— Mia Love

#america #both #cannot #communities #difficulties

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

#degree #freedom #freedom from #gauge #measures

But with the slow menace of a glacier, depression came on. No one had any measure of its progress; no one had any plan for stopping it. Everyone tried to get out of its way. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#came #depression #everyone #get #glacier

The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dressing #innovation #introspection #melancholy #philosophical

If the Communists win Europe and a large part of the world, it will not be because they know how to stir up discontent or how to infect people with hatred, but because they know how to preach hope. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#politics #progress #the-true-believer #communism

Stagnation is self-abdication. ↗

— Ryan Talbot

#progress #self-abdication #self-esteem #self-worth #stagnation

History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses. ↗

— michael p naughton

#technological-progress #technology #business

I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical progress has lowered the threshold that stops people from helping themselves to protected works without the slightest embarrassment. ↗

— Johannes Rau

#auditorium #embarrassment #helping #here #i