Quotes About Progress

The old order changeth, yielding place to new.

Everything changes but change.

At every single moment of one's life, one is going to be no less than what one has been.

Character building begins in our infancy, and continues until death.

In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand on it.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

We are in the first age since the dawn of civilization in which people have dared to think it practicable to make the benefits of civilization available to the whole human race.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

Civilization is a movement - not a condition; a voyage - not a harbour.

A race preserves its vigour so long as it harbours a real contrast between what has been and what may be, and so long as it is nerved by the vigour to adventure beyond the safeties of the past. Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Nations, like individuals, live and die; but civilization cannot die.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

If Moses had been a committee, the Israelites would still be in Egypt.

If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.