Quotes About Progress

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

Toffler's Law, I guess: the future arrives too soon and in the wrong order.

You know Chad's definition of the New Poor? People who are too far behind with time-payments on next year's model to make the down-payment on the one for the year after?

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better.

The European Union is the world's most successful invention for advancing peace.

Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

The living tradition we share draws from many sources …

We have arrived where we are because of all that lies behind us. Finally, effective worship asks us to stretch forward. It has a dimension of aspiration.

And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.

Culture means the perfect and equal development of man on all sides.

To find new things, take the path you took yesterday.

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

Inch by inch, life's a cinch. Yard by yard, life's hard.

While the Lord will magnify us in both subtle and dramatic ways, he can only guide our footsteps when we move our feet."4

inch by inch will make it cinch ,yard by yard will make it hard.

a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. . . . Always have something ahead of you to 'look forward to'—to work for and hope for

The greatest enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan." Stick to the good plan.

The great game of life is not about money; it is about doing your best to join the battle to build anew ourselves, our communities, our nation, and our world.