Quotes about Progress

Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.

I want to see myself as a student. Keep learning, keep improving, keep your eyes and ears open.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

I've been studying the Bible for a long time. I remember that after the first five years or so of diligently studying the Word, I didn't feel like I had made any progress. There were a lot of things in my life that were out of order, and I didn't feel like I was getting anywhere.

Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

Free agency, given us through the plan of our Father, is the great alternative to Satan's plan of force. With this sublime gift, we can grow, improve, progress, and seek perfection.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps — we must step up the stairs.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave--with both ends kicked out.

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.

Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

We must be careful not to be so scared of getting out on a limb that we never get up the tree.

Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?