Quotes About Progress

Don't get somewhere as fast as possible. Get somewhere as good as possible

Things most oft bad begun most oft get worse, as a wise man once said.

I spent my 30s fixing everything I broke in my 20s.

In reality, all men are sculptors, constantly chipping away the unwanted parts of their lives trying to create a masterpiece.

We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works.

But, in the end, we have to allow this "innocent" idea of white America to die. It is irredeemable, but that does not mean we are too.

We have to become better people by fundamentally transforming the conditions of our living together. This will require setting aside our comforting illusions.

Hope is invented every day.

I would like us to do something unprecedented,' Baldwin wrote in 1967, 'to create ourselves without finding it necessary to create an enemy.

In so many ways, these last two sentences

Nell Painter spoke to the heart of the matter. "It's all about the questions we ask," she said. "The questions have changed. I mean, the questions always change. That's why we keep writing history.

would like us to do something unprecedented," Baldwin wrote in 1967, "to create ourselves without finding it necessary to create an enemy.

in the end, we have to allow this "innocent" idea of white America to die. It is irredeemable, but that does not mean we are too.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.

We are eager to give birth to new ministries, but are lousy at letting old ones die.

Every brand new day is a new lesson.

Every brand new is a new lesson.

Life is a sequence of chain. Hold on to it and you will reach your desire destination.

Monday is the engine of the week.

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

You grow to heaven. You don't go to heaven.