"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

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"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

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"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Progress, Now, Taxes

"Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now accomplishes for all men."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

Progress, Science, Hope, Faith

"I don't believe in myths of decline or myths of progress, even as regards the literary scene."

Harold Bloom, American Critic

Progress, Literary, Myths

"When you don't come closer to the goal and don't make everyday steps for achieving it, we will not get the results we inwardly set out to attain."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Progress, Goal, Action, Achievement

"Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job."

Victor Hugo, French Author

Progress, Darkness, Exploration, Life

"The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world."

George Eliot, British Author

Progress, World, Individual, Change

"Consistency is good, but progress is better."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

Progress, Consistency, Improvement, Change

"How do we change the world is the wrong question to ask or try to answer. We are never stagnant just and neither is the world. It's changing every moment of every day. The real question is how do we develop it."

Matthew Donnelly, American Author

Progress, Development, Change, Responsibility

"Crawl in faith, and you will end up walking. Walk in faith, and you will end up jogging. Jog in faith, and you will end up running. Run in faith, and you will end up sprinting. Sprint in faith, and you will end up soaring."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Progress, Faith, Growth, Persistence, Journey

"Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Progress, Goal, Truth, Power, Focus

Explore more quotes by Thomas Jefferson

"If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all."

Choice

"...vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of '76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."

Politics

"To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical."

Freedom

"Those who expect to be both ignorant and free, expect what never was and never will be."

Philosophy

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object."

Politics

"War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer."

Conflict

"When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred."

Emotion

"Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival."

Wisdom

"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time."

Freedom

"All that is necessary for a student is access to a library."

Education