Advancement Quotes - Page 6

• the higher the step of advancement, the heavier is the fall.

  Heloise

  Failure, Fall, Steps

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• Probably nothing in the experience of the rank and file of workers causes more bitterness and envy than the realization which comes sooner or later to many of them that they are "stuck" and can go no further.

  Mary Barnett Gilson

  Work, Envy, Realization

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• That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Men, Feminism, Comfort

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.32, University of Toronto Press

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• The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.

  Barack Obama

  Motivational, Success, Leadership

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• Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

  William Wilberforce

  Men, Favors, May

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• There is nothing so inconvenient in this world as an absolutely truthful person, who can both speak and write, and has the courage of his convictions. One can always arrange matters with liars ... But with the man or woman who holds truth dearer than life, and honor more valuable than advancement, there is nothing to be done, now that governments cannot insist on the hemlock-cure, as in the case of Socrates.

  Marie Corelli

  Truth, Liars, Writing

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• To be pleased at correction and reproofs shows that one loves the virtues which are contrary to those faults for which he is corrected and reproved. And, therefore, it is a great sign of advancement in perfection.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Faith, Inspiration, Perfection

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• Disputes among natural philosophers are of use to science, as the quarrels of the great, and the clamors of the little, are necessary to freedom of thought and the advancement of learning.

  Hal Hellman

  Thinking, Use, Littles

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• I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.

  Cass Gilbert

  New York, Ambition, Opportunity

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• Our opinions partake, more or less, of the prejudices of our class, party, or sect. We are all largely pledged, through interest, affection, or passion, to particular classes of opinion, and the strength of efforts to get released from these pledges, is the measure of our advancement.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Party, Passion, Class

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• We have had good and bad Presidents, and it is a consoling reflection that the American Nation possesses such elements of prosperity that the bad Presidents cannot destroy it, and have been able to do no more than slightly to retard the public's advancement.

  Henry Clay

  Reflection, President, Able

  Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: Candidate, Compromiser, Elder Statesman, January 1, 1844-June 29, 1852”, p.553, University Press of Kentucky

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• Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.

  Jennifer Young

  Moving, Copying, Originality

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• Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Father, Sleep

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Sartor Resartus: The Historian”, p.180, 北戴河出版

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• Religion is now the first obstacle to women's advancement. Religion pulls human beings backwards, it goes against science and progressiveness. Religion engulfs people with a fear of the supernatural. It bars people from laughing and never allows people to exercise their choice.

  Taslima Nasrin

  Exercise, People, Laughing

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• Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society.

  Kaye Ballard

  Fundamentals, Philanthropy, Philanthropic

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• I love what I do and I love being part of the storytelling process. And I love the technological advancements. It was the thing that kept me going on every 20-hour day, 7 days a week. You have to love it to do that.

  Christine Bieselin Clark

  Love Is, Week, Storytelling

  "Exclusive interview with Tron: Legacy costume designer Christine Bieselin Clark". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. November 30, 2010.

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• For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and maintaining order. What I've witnessed in our time is evolving democratization, a shift to a demand economy accelerated by technological advancements like social media.

  Kevin Allen

  Running, Order, Top Down

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Secular humanists should recognize those forms of religion as allies in the struggle for human advancement. They should also learn from them, as they try to build a fully secular world in which people can have the opportunity to live rich and fulfilling lives.

  Philip Kitcher

  Struggle, Opportunity, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• When I say corrupting, I mean taking over and politicizing them for the express purpose of advancing the leftist agenda. And the advancement of the leftist agenda in large part consists of destroying institutions, traditions, people, policies, what have you, that the left considers to be obstacles to their efforts to blow everything up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Mean, Blow, People

  "The Pope: Trump’s Not a Christian". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Science is my JAM. I am very excited to see where science and technological advancements will take us in the next few decades.

  Benjamin Stone

  Jam, Next, Excited

  Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

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• The advancements that women have made are very threatening to men in the job place. There haven't been that many women in politics. If you look at the conventions, it's kind of pathetic how many men are the heads of companies. On the other hand, I'm not sure what the reality should be.

  Carly Simon

  Jobs, Reality, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Current creation has exiled the turning wheel, and the same law of advancement makes the lady of today an alternate lady from her grandma.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Grandma, Law, Today

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• Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon's fake ghetto series, "The Wire." It figures. Isn't this sexism? Isn't this a double standard? They're hard on this young woman for her fake ghetto book, yet praise these White guys for theirs. So there's a big market in downing Black men.

  Ishmael Reed

  Book, Ghetto, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Each restorational advancement of the Army of the Lord has established denominational forts that are given responsibility to maintain the purity and power of that truth... New recruits are now being drafted and trained and older soldiers and generals are being put through intensified training for the next advancement of the Church Army. They are being purified by the Baptism of Fire... Are you ready? Where do you start? What will you do? A new government must be established, a new way of life for those millions of people. You are now ready to rule and reign on your overcomer's throne!

  Bill Hamon

  Responsibility, Army, Fire

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• It is not the rich man's son that the young struggler for advancement has to fear in the race for life, nor his nephew, nor his cousin. Let him look out for the dark horse in the boy who begins by sweeping out the office.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Horse, Cousin, Son

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie: Top Biography”, p.28, 谷月社

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