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Progress

Fear

September 22

Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.

~ Francis Chan

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Quotes Getting Things Done Progress Francis Chan

Direction

August 17

A step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

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Progress 7 for Sunday Kurt Vonnegut Quotes

True progress

August 10

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

~ Carl Sagan

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Carl Sagan Quotes Progress 7 for Sunday Truth

Unfolding

May 10, 2022

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Progress

Deterioration

May 7, 2022

Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

~ J. Stuart Mill

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Quotes Progress J. Stuart Mill

Advancing

May 6, 2022

He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer, whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into living peace.

~ John Ruskin

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Quotes Progress John Ruskin

Progressive development

May 2, 2022

Indeed, the grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older; Societies better.

~ Bovee

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Quotes Progress Bovee

Revelation

May 1, 2022

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.

~ Longfellow

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Progress Quotes Longfellow

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