Quotes About Progress

But there are ideals which do not play hide-and-seek with our life; they slowly grow from seed to flower, from flower to fruit; they require infinite space and heaven's light to mature, and the fruits that they produce can survive years of insult and neglect.

El destino del hombre es equivocarse, afanarse inútilmente y sufrir, pero lo que no puede es quedar estancado; sacrifica su vida en aras de lo que considera su deber.

brings in harvests of wealth, then it crosses its boundaries with amazing rapidity.

giving place to merely mechanical organization. But you see signs of it everywhere.

man is driven to professionalism, producing wealth for himself and others, continually

Nations which have got on in the world have done so by action, not by ebullition.

Our history is that of our social life and attainment of spiritual ideals.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Don't limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.

Whatever it is you want to do, take a job in that field. You will learn by experience and, slow and steady, you'll get it done!

backpack. Soon we were heading up the

Until we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is... we cannot expect things to be much better in this world... We cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in killing we set back the progress of humanity.

Women, as we know, used to be judged incapable of medicine. That changed in 1876, when, after a tenacious fight led by Britain's first female doctor, Elizabeth Garret Anderson, the law was changed to prohibit women's exclusion from medical schools. Now, more than 140 years later, female medical students outnumber men. Yet, according to Lawson, our predisposition to avoid antisocial hours and put family before career means we are more

In medicine, needless to say, the moment you feel as if you've mastered something is invariably the point at which your next experience will knock you straight back down to earth.

There's a certain point in life at which you realise it's no longer interesting that time goes forward - or rather, that its forward-going-ness has been the central plank of life's illusion, and that while you were waiting to see what was going to happen next, you were steadily being robbed of all you had.

If you were a woman you would certainly find your mother's life hanging over your head like a sword and you would be asking yourself what progress you had made, other than to double for yourself the work she had been expected to do and receive three times the blame for it.

I realised too that she would never have known this happiness had she not gone through the unhappiness that preceded it, in precisely the way that she did.

Sometimes, I said, the loss of transition became the gain of simplicity.

He often caught himself living in the mistaken belief that transformation was the same thing as progress. Things could look very different while remain the same: time could seem to have altered everything, without changing the thing that needed to change.

I hadn't realised, I said, how much of navigation is the belief in progress, and the assumption of fixity in what you have left behind.

Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.

It has become impossible to forget 'votes for women,' just as it was impossible to forget the reformation of Luther.

If we can be sure of anything, it's that the immense challenges faced by our country and our nation cannot be solved by the same people in the same offices, casting the same votes for the same failed policies.

I can't see where there is anywhere left to move. If you don't have a recount it's hard to receive any more votes.