Quotes About Progress

An idea must not be condemned for being a little shy and incoherent; all new ideas are shy when introduced first among our old ones. We should have patience and see whether the incoherency is likely to wear off or to wear on, in which latter case the sooner we get rid of them the better.

Preparation is not the enemy of success, but a dear friend. Be good to yourself and the favor will return.

In human affairs there is no snug harbor, no rest short of the grave. We are forever setting forth afresh across new and stormy seas, or into outer space.

Give me a couple of years, and I'll make that actress an overnight success.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

I read part of it all the way through.

Let's have some new clichés.

T]hough I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confessed—Slow rises worth, by poverty depress'd.

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

The future is purchased by the present.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

Nothing [...] will ever be attempted, if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world and never will.

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

Human rights were cut off from the dream of globally fair distribution that the global south itself advocated during the 1970s.