Quotes About Progress

There comes a time when you've got to say, "Let's get off our asses and go ..." I have always found that if I move with 75 percent or more of the facts I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.

The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray.

To lose Is to learn.

Defeat should never be a source of discouragement but rather a fresh stimulus.

What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Time, in the turning-over of days, works change, for better or worse.

Time bears away all things.

Time brings all things to pass.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer.

If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.

The whole world is about three drinks behind.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

To be able to use leisure intelligently will be the last product of an intelligent civilization.

Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.

Judge each day not by it's harvest, but by the seeds you plant.

We must never despair; our situation has been compromising before, and it has changed for the better; so I trust it will again. If difficulties arise, we must put forth new exertion and proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times.