Quotes About Progress

In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.

As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course.

He, therefore, who first collected societies, was the greatest benefactor of mankind.

Tragedy advanced by slow degrees; each new element that showed itself was in turn developed. Having passed through many changes, it found its natural form, and there it stopped.

All learning is derived from things previously known.

Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks to amend.

Change in all things is sweet.

Educated men are as much superior to uneducated men as the living are to the dead.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.

We can fight fire with water provided we can get it there soon enough. But often we act when it's too late. The result is splattered in the pages of our history: bloodbaths, uprisings, revolutions, you name. And on it goes. We learn so slowly. After so many centuries, we're still a people who eat fire and drink water.' 'Why bother,then?' 'Because we have to believe that one day we'll learn.

Conservatives of yesterday seem moderate or liberal to us today.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Remember, your highest goal is learning, and only in action does true, experiential learning occur. This is what you climb for.

Success and failure do not exist in the present, only effort and action exist.

Second, the work is a process, and that process lasts a lifetime. Every time you gain a new plateau, a massif of unrealized potential soars above you. In this sense, you never "arrive," once and for all, on the mountaintop.

Performance is most easily improved not by adding things, but by removing obstacles. Maybe

With the single exception of the American Revolution, the aftermath of all revolutions from 1789 on only worsened the human condition.

If life is not a continual denial of the past, then it is nothing.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is best from the top.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.

Any change, even a change for the better is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own.