Quotes About Progress

No man will swim ashore and take his baggage with him.

It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.

Speech is civilization itself.

The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Every dogma has its day.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

I became more courageous by doing the very things I needed to be courageous for-first, a little, and badly. Then, bit by bit, more and better. Being avidly-sometimes annoy-ingly-curious and persistent about discovering how others were doing what I wanted to do.

We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon-to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go ... we must continually ask ourselves, "What will happen if ... ?" or better still, "How can we make it happen?"

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old-old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to do something.

We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.

None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Since changes are going on anyway, the great thing is to learn enough about them so that we will be able to lay hold of them and turn them in the direction of our desires. Condi-tions and events are neither to be fled from nor passively acquiesced in; they are to be utilized and directed.

Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.

No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that others are behind the time.

In creating, the only hard thing's to begin; A grass-blade's no easier to make than an oak.

Other times, other customs.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into the habit of making decisions, experience will develop your judgment to a point where more and more of your decisions will be right. After all, it is better to be right 51 percent of the time and get something done, than it is to get nothing done because you fear to reach a decision.

One faces the future with one's past.

He who reflects too much will achieve little.