Quotes About Progress

In this world you're either growing or you're dying so get in motion and grow.

complexity. Assuming

Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections..

as the human race is incapable of learning anything from history.

Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

A person may be smaller in success than in defeat; it depends on what he is trying to do

What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?" I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? "There is time," she said, "but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

A ship does not sail with yesterday's wind.

Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This-- I held out my hands --this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

To be a man was to be responsible. It was as simple as that. To be a man was to build something, to try to make the world about him a bit easier to live in for himself and those who followed. You could sneer at that, you could scoff, you could refuse to acknowledge it, but when it came right down to it, Conn decided it was the man who planted a tree, dug a well, or graded a road who mattered.

Victory is not won in miles but in inches.

he who ceases to learn is already a half-dead man.

For it is given that no man can do it all, that each must carry the future forward a few years and then pass the message on to him who follows.

No man can put a rope on the past and hope to snub it down. The best thing is to learn to it ride the new trails - Kilkenny

It has seemed to me that each year one should pause to take stock of himself, to ask: Where am I going? What am I becoming? What do I wish to do and become? Most people whom I encountered were without purpose, people who had given themselves no goal. The first goal need not be the final one, for a sailing ship sails first by one wind, then another. The point is that it is always going somewhere, proceeding toward a final destination.

That was always the trouble…everything a man wanted to do lay ahead of him.

he who ceases to learn is already a half-dead man. And do not be like an oyster who rests on the sea bottom waiting for the good things to come by. Search for them, find them.

One cannot begin too young nor linger too long with learning.

Remember that, son. The dogs bark, but the wagons go on their way, and if you're going someplace you haven't time to bother with barking dogs.

It is not enough to do, one must also become.

What we did not possess we had to make for ourselves or learn to do without, but the little I learned helped me to build a defense against the change that time would surely bring, to teach me that to live was to change, and that change was the one irrevocable law. Nothing remained the same.

I never saw a man get superior so fast.