My belief assumed a form that it commonly assumes among the educated people of our time. This belief was expressed by the word "progress." At the time it seemed to me that this word had meaning. Like any living individual, I was tormented by questions of how to live better. I still had not understood that in answering that one must live according to progress, I was talking just like a person being carried along in a boat by the waves and the wind; without really answering, such a person replies to the only important question-"Where are we to steer?"-by saying, "We are being carried somewhere.
Leo TolstoyTags: progress sailing life-direction
I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress could justify such an act; I realized that even if all the people in the world from the day of creation found this to be necessary according to whatever theory, I knew that it was not necessary and that it was wrong. Therefore, my judgments must be based-on what is right and necessary and not on what people say and do; I must judge not according to progress but according to my own heart.
Leo TolstoyTags: progress righteousness
The key to success is having no qualms about failure.
Richelle E. GoodrichTags: goals success progress victory triumph failure achievement fortune richelle richelle-goodrich qualms
Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you.
Kaiden BlakeTags: inspirational progress empowerment power inspiration procrastination self-help encouragement mindfulness waiting impatience kaiden-blake
To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.
Sylvain TessonConsistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist, rejected emphatically Spinoza's pantheism.
Shelby D. HuntTags: progress liberal deism reasoning pantheism views enlightenment leibniz baruch-spinoza spinoza optimist scientist gottfried-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz scientific-progress
Progress and motion are not synonymous.
Tim FargoTags: success progress winning achievement movement efficiency results activity effectiveness win achieve motion effective achievers effective-leadership efficiently achiever
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