Quotes About Progress

So much to do; so little done.

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

"The world is a wheel always turning," philosophized Mrs. Pelz. "Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher."

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.

Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development.

Restlessness is discontent, and discontent is the first necessity of progress.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.

Forget the times of your distress, but never forget what they taught you.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

You have learned something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.

Here's a new day. 0 Pendulum move slowly!

When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

The United States was born in the country and moved to the city in the nineteenth century.

The Americans believe they answered all first questions in 1776: since then they've just been hammering out the practical details.

America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.

New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past, disowning it whenever it can.

Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders.