Quotes About Progress

Friedman described the situation in 1963 in these epigrammatic terms: "to the Negro demand for 'now,' to which the Deep South has replied 'never,' many liberal whites are increasingly responding 'later.

But the time may come when this becomes a possibility, in the context of a stronger multiracial movement for radical democracy.

I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Do not wait for a change of environment before you act; get a change of environment by action. You can so act upon the environment in which you are now as to cause yourself to be transferred to a better environment. Hold with faith and purpose the vision of yourself in the better environment, but act upon your present environment with all your heart, and with all your strength, and with all your mind.

no man is born incapable of growth.

Every man comes into the world with a predisposition to grow along certain lines, and growth is easier for him along those lines than in any other way.

We must remember that this is not a bad world but a good world in the process of becoming.

You must learn to see the world as something which is evolving and becoming; not as a finished work.

Do not give your creative impulse to Original Substance, and then sit down and wait for results; if you do, you will never get them. Act now. There is never any time but now, and there never will be any time but now. If you are ever to begin to make ready for the reception of what you want, you must begin now.

Go as fast as you can, but never hurry. Remember that in the moment you begin to hurry you cease to be a creator and become a competitor; you drop back upon the old plane again.

they will remain where they are as long as they continue to do as they do.

The progress of the world is retarded only by those who do not fill the places they are holding; they belong to a former age and a lower stage or plane of life, and their tendency is toward degeneration.

siempre puede empezar a hacer cosas pequeñas de una forma grandiosa. Aquí reside el secreto.

Nothing better is possible until we cease to be mental savages in industry and business, and become men and women. This can only come about by the rise of the whole race to a higher viewpoint. And this can only come about by the rise of such individuals here and there as are ready for the higher viewpoint.

As you get capital, its increase becomes easier and more rapid.

The very best thing you can do for the world is make the most of yourself

When a majority will desire a world without such discord, they will create such a world.

It is true that existing governments keep the masses in poverty, but this is because the masses do not think and act in a certain way. If the masses began to move forward

No lea libros que le digan que el mundo está llegando a su fin, ni lea escritos de filósofos escandalizadores y pesimistas que dicen que vamos hacia el demonio. El mundo no va hacia el demonio; está yendo a Dios. Es una maravillosa transformación.

the basis of all advancement must be the science of getting rich.

The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.

The purpose of life for us is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.