Progress

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  • The best way to achieve your goals is to make yourself an achieved goal so that you'll know you already had something in your life- Yourself.
        Nkosana   Best?
  • By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character
        Grenville Kleiser   Best?
  • It is the regret of inaction that stings the greatest.
        James Madden   Best?
  • You can do no great things, just small things with great love.
        Mother Theresa   Best?
  • Life sucks, get a helmet.
        Andrew Mullins   Best?
  • Engineering is an activity other than purely manual and physical work which brings about the utilization of the materials and laws of nature for the good of humanity.
        R. E. Hellmund   Best?
  • God lives in the mirror
        Aaron Krick   Best?
  • I'll always fly; for humans don't have wings.
        Nadia Key   Best?
  • Patience is a virtue which is often rewarded.
        Andy Stephenson   Best?
  • I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
        Henry David Thoreau   Best?
  • HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments -- a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling -- tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility -- these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, _The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion_ -- 4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, _Delectatio Demonorum_ (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on _Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration_.
        Ambrose Bierce   Best?
  • The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.
        Eric Hoffer   Best?
  • By March 1918, Lenin's Bolshevik regime, then just five months old, had knowingly killed more of its political opponents than Czarist Russia had in the whole preceding century.
        Tony Judt   Best?
  • A person who can acquire no property, can have no other interest but to eat as much, and to labour as little as possible. Whatever work he does beyond what is sufficient to purchase his own maintenance can be squeezed out of him by violence only, and not by any interest of his own.
        Adam Smith   Best?
  • Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
        Nikola Tesla   Best?
  • Language is like a crack'd kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
        Gustave Flaubert   Best?
  • Language is like a crack'd kettle on which we beat out tunes to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
        Gustave Flaubert   Best?
  • Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
        William Butler Yeates   Best?
  • To get a man's attention, just stand in front of the TV and don't move. He'll talk to you. I promise.
        Tim Allen   Best?
  • Diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means.
        Zhou En Lai   Best?
  • By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
        Charles Haddon Spurgeon   Best?
  • Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.
        Knute Rockne   Best?
  • As Americans, we go forward, in the service of our country, by the will of God.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
        Henry Clay   Best?
  • A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.
        Charles Dickens   Best?
  • At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.
        Arthur C. Clarke   Best?
  • The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. We know that oppressive governments support terror, while free governments fight the terrorists in their midst. We know that free peoples embrace progress and life, instead of becoming the recruits for murderous ideologies.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
        Christopher Reeve   Best?
  • As Americans, we want peace -- we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
        George W. Bush   Best?
  • At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans.
        John Kerry   Best?
  • My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.
        Pamela Anderson   Best?
  • I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday. If I think too much, it kind of freaks me out.
        Pamela Anderson   Best?
  • You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
        Marie Curie   Best?
  • There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything. I do, and I demand that my players do.
        Vince Lombardi   Best?
  • Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.
        Charles Baudelaire   Best?
  • We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
        Charles Baudelaire   Best?
  • Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
        Vince Lombardi   Best?
  • Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.
        Sean Covey   Best?

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