Quotes About Progress

Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

There is always time for failure.

It is not just our failures or limitations that hold us back, it is our failure to recognise them.

The great danger of maturation is calcification.

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.

Don't get so far in front of the parade that no one knows you're in the parade.

The modernization of Asia will forever reshape the world as we move toward the next millennium.

It is too early to tell whether the Internet's effect on media will be as radical as that of the printing press. It is not too early to tell that there is nothing that happened between 1450 and now that comes close.'49

Internet is special because it's a powerful enabler of disruptive innovation – defined as 'a process by which a product or service takes root initially in simple applications at the bottom of a market and then relentlessly moves 'up market', eventually displacing established competitors'.

rooted in incidents that at the time seemed insignificant.

We very often fail to see our present circumstances in right perspective. Look back over the past, however, and compare what you have been brought through with your frame of mind during each successive period. Consider how wonderfully one thing has been connected with another so that what we now count as our greatest benefits are

I am not the man I ought to be, I am not the man I wish to be and I am not the man I hope to be, but, by the grace of God, I am not the man I used to be.

That which begins will also end.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

Growth is the only evidence of life. The opposite is true, too. Stagnation is the first step to your grave.

Frequently our apparent mistakes give birth to our biggest blessings.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

You have lost nothing that matters. You have everything you need. Everything before leads up to now and now leads to what shall be.

Let not man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.

Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.

John P. Forsyth

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, in the next century we are going to have to try to become much more skilled at creating leaders.