Quotes About Progress

So it is true that every one of our actions leaves some trace on our past, either dark or bright. So it is true that every step we take is more like a reptile's progress across the sand, leaving a track behind it. And often, alas, the track is the mark of our tears!

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Time follows its course carrying events with it; what is obscure one evening, is often revealed the next.

Aika tuo selvyyttä. Asiat, jotka vielä eilen näyttivät hämäriltä, ovatkin huomenna päivänselviä.

Remember, the execution is fixed for the day after tomorrow, and that you have but one day to work in. And what of that? Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds very many things can be done.

However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations.

Bien sabéis que las invenciones humanas marchan de lo compuesto a lo simple, que es siempre la perfección.

Le idee non muoiono, sonnecchiano talvolta e si risvegliano poi più forti di prima.

The past, like the country through which we walk, becomes indistinct as we advance.

El orgullo de quienes no pueden edificar es destruir.

Does this not tell you that grief, as well as in life, there is always something to look forward to beyond?

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L'homme ne sera parfait que lorsqu'il saura créer et détruire comme Dieu ; il sait déjà détruire, c'est la moitié du chemin de fait.

Omul nu va fi perfect decat atunci cand va sti sa creeze si sa distruga ca Dumnezeu. Deja stie sa distruga, deci jumatate din drum e facut.

On ne devient pas adulte, on finit adulte.

N]ow that I am drawing to the close of this work, in which I have spoken of so many important things done by the Americans, to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of that people ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.

America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.

Under wage labor, the art advances, the artisan declines.

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in their earliest years.

They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted our revolutionaries to destroy it; that, in fact, though nothing was further from their intentions, they used the debris of the old order for building up the new.

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

But a democracy can only obtain truth as the result of experience, and many nations may forfeit their existence whilst they are awaiting the consequences of their errors.

Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.