Quotes About Progress

The country that manufactures nothing, ran the old saying in such towns, eventually becomes nothing;

Change isn't something that most people enjoy, even if it's progressive change.

capita in the Republic of Korea was 121.8%. For Taiwan, that figure was 88.0%. In Hong Kong, real GDP growth per capita in that period leaped 64.2%, while in Singapore it was 77.5%. Growth in real earnings has been even more impressive,

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not denial of the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men.

Civilization and profits go hand in hand

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately. It would be exceedingly easy to set the country all by the ears and foment hatreds and jealousies, which, by destroying faith and confidence, would help nobody and harm everybody. The end would be the destruction of all progress.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort and effort means work.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of our nation.

So far as each individual is concerned all he can do is to take the abilities he has and make the most of them. His power over the past is gone. His power over the future depends on what he does with himself in the present. If he wishes to live and progress he must work.

Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.

Optimism is a revolutionary act

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

September is a changeable sort of month. One foot in summer and the other in autumn.

The journey, not the destination, was all that mattered. The sense of freedom, never mind that it was false, that always comes with motion.

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.

es hora de seguir adelante, de dejar de lamentarse por lo que podría haber tenido y alegrarme de lo que de hecho tengo.

La vida siempre seguía.

hace un par de años.

hemos podido hasta que se hizo demasiado

Sometimes you have to be proactive. You can't just sit there, waiting for things to happen. For things to change. Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands.