George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Reading Quotes, Progress Quotes

In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

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It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves.

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The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

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Progress consists only in the greater clarification of answers to the basic questions of life.

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According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

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But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from "best.

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It is the duty of every person to contribute in the development and progress of India.

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Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.

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All manifest life seems to require a period of sleep, of calm, in which to gain added strength, renewed vigour, for the next manifestation, or awakening to activity. Thus is the march of all progress, of all manifest life - in waves, successive waves, [of] activity and repose. Waves succeed each other in an endless chain of progression.

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A great many of us have confused change with progress.

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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

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On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.

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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

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No man ever came to an experience which was satiating, but his good is tidings of a better. Onward and onward!

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Men Quotes , Progress Quotes

To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

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