Quotes About Progress

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time, which explains why young years pass slowly, while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.

We can build upon foundations anywhere, if they are well and truly laid.

What you become is what counts.

Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Happiness is action.

Happiness walks on busy feet.

Having a goal is a state of happiness.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was always some obstacle in the way. Something had to be got through first, some unfinished business; time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

You know, we're all going in the same direction, or at least trying to. So we need to live together, get along together, and give each other enough space to be comfortable on that road.

The golden rule is of no use whatsoever unless you realize that it is your move.

First, teach a person to develop to the point of his limitations and then- pfft!-break the limitations.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

Make the world better.

In essence, the renaissance is simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.

A human being isn't an orchid, he must draw something from the soil he grows in.

To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.

Great ideas are not charitable.