Quotes About Progress

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow.

The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.

Nothing is permanent but change.

We work to become, not to acquire.

No one gets very far unless he accomplishes the impossible at least once a day.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

Work to become, not to acquire.

If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Your happiness and excellence as men depend greatly upon the use you make of your time while you are boys, for now you are building, habit by habit and thought by thought, the characters which you will have when you are men.

We have successfully grappled with some giant evils and have slain them, but others to meet and conquer them is a question still. It depends upon the boys if today to answer that. It is upon their shoulders that the burden will fall, and they are ones to whom the fight is coming.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

All of life is a constant education.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

Character building begins in our infancy and continues until death.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.