Quotes About Progress

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.

Be an opener of doors

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency. Your genuine action will explain itself, and will explain your other genuine actions. Your conformity explains nothing. Act singly, and what you have already done singly will justify you now.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Let us advance on Chaos and the Dark

A sufficient and sure method of civilization is in the influence of good women.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. It undergoes continual changes; it is barbarous, it is civilized, it is christianized, it is rich, it is scientific; but this change is not amelioration. For every thing that is given, something is taken.

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and that without end. The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

The surest poison is time.

All great speakers were bad speakers at first.

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.