Quotes About Progress

so many things frowned upon in the early days that shaped us

So many people saying, Let's improve these problems right now! Except extremists. Extremists never wanted things to improve. They just wanted to win. They needed psychiatrists.

The Western sexual revolution sucks. It has not worked well enough for women.

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon us.

If you are not learning while you're earning, you are cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

Edison failed 10, 000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times.

Then accumulated knowledge is not wisdom? A Great heavens, no! If knowledge were wisdom, the achievements of science would not have been converted into implements of destruction.

Far from being a disadvantage, struggle is a decided advantage, because it develops those qualities which would forever lie dormant without it.

Every failure carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater reward'.

the famous Emil Coué formula, 'Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better'

Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Every adversity, every unpleasant circumstance, every failure, and every physical pain carries with it the seed of an equivalent benefit.

It's a sure thing that you will not finish if you don't start. The most difficult part of any job is getting started.

Most great people have achieved their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

It is not unreasonable to look forward to a time when we shall see without eyes, hear without ears and talk without tongues.

We who desire to accumulate riches, should remember the real leaders of the world always have been men who harnessed, and put into practical use, the intangible, unseen forces of unborn opportunity, and have converted those forces, [or impulses of thought], into sky-scrapers, cities, factories, airplanes, automobiles, and every form of convenience that makes life more pleasant.

My complaint is not against the work that the churches have done, but the work that they could have done through leadership that was based upon the principle of co-ordinated, co-operative effort which would have carried civilization at least a thousand years ahead of where it is today. It is not yet too late for such leadership.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your Vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your Ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Failure so often hates the very sight of success. Speaking with successful men, I have noticed they speak in complimentary terms of other men who are succeeding. Their attitude is not one of envy, but of willingness to learn from others.