Quotes About Progress

Construction cumbers the ground with institutions made by busybodies. Destruction clears it and gives us breathing space and liberty.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That´s why all progress depends on unreasonable men.

What is proposed is nothing but the replacement of the old unintelligent, inevitable, almost unconscious fertility by an intelligently controlled, conscious fertility, and the elimination of the mere voluptuary from the evolutionary process.

The only fundamental and possible Socialism is the socialization of the selective breeding of Man: in other terms, of human evolution We must eliminate the Yahoo, or his vote will wreck the commonwealth.

But I will now go further, and confess to you that men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

it's always the patient who has to take the chance when an experiment is necessary. And we can find out nothing without experiment.

Postajemo mudri ne zbog toga što se prise?amo naše prošlosti, ve? što postajemo odgovorni za našu budu?nost.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing

The reasonable man adapts himself to the environment. The unreasonable man adapts the environment to him. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw

As pessoas estão sempre culpando as circunstâncias pelo que elas são. Eu não acredito em circunstâncias. Os indivíduos que progridem neste mundo são aqueles que se mexem e procuram as circunstâncias que querem, e, se não conseguem encontrá-las, eles as criam.

Progress is impossible without change. And those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.

Progresul este imposibil f?r? schimbare, iar aceia care nu îÅŸi pot schimba felul de a gândi nu pot schimba nimic

Progress is impossible without change

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.

My advice: just keep movin' straight ahead. Every now and then you find yourself in a different place.

Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

The future will soon be a thing of the past.

All destinations are final. That's what it means! Destiny...FINAL! If you haven't gotten to where you're going...YOU AREN'T THERE YET!

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed

The sooner you plant that seed the sooner shall the tree grow. And the more faithfully you nourish and water that tree with consistent savings, the sooner may you bask in contentment beneath it's shade

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

No retrospect will take us to the true beginning