Quotes About Progress

Like Martin Luther King Jr., Frankie dreamed of living in a nation where people would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. The sonner she realized that dream, the sooner she could get started on Katy Perry's and live the teenage one.

What's wrong with mistakes? Not that I'd know. No one's ever let me make any.

Lisi Harrison

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first. William Shakespeare.

History provides a great example but a terrible excuse.

Stale water is a poor drink,' said Annlaw. 'Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

Once, he added, you told me that the seeking counts more than the finding. So, too, must the striving count more than the gain.

Stale water is a poor drink," said Annlaw. "Stale skill is worse. And the man who walks in his own footsteps only ends where he began.

What you call ancient custom is just a bad habit. Somebody did something stupid long ago and you've been doing it ever since. It doesn't make anything better. It only gets stupider and stupider.

If you made mistakes, you recognize them. As I told you, there are times when the seeking counts more than the finding.

We humans now increasingly share in what used to be regarded as the omniscience and omnipotence of God.

We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.

Think only on the climb. Think on what you control

and I want you all to remember- that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one.

and I want you all to remember—that you must not dream yourselves back to the times before the war, but the dream for you all, young and old, must be to create an ideal of human decency, and not a narrow-minded and prejudiced one. That is the great gift our country hungers for, something every little peasant boy can look forward to, and with pleasure feel he is a part of—something he can work and fight for.

Thomas, she suggested, you and I? We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

each change, painful though some of them will be, will make us a little better than we were before.

And he could see as well that they had not yet approached the worst of it.

The corner was just ahead.

Fear dims when you learn things

That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.

My work will be finished when I have helped the community to change and become whole.