Quotes About Progress

Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

Every child had a pretty good shot, to get at least as far as their old man got. But something happened on the way to that place. They threw an American flag in our face.

You are inexperienced. So was I, once. So is every man. The measure of a person is not how much they have lived. . . It's in how they make us of what life has shown them.

The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

Grateful for his mistakes, man should be the gods, because by overcoming the faults the stronger force is developed.

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

For the uniqueness of man lies in his capacity for self-transcendence.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

Times don't change. Men do.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

Show me a man who makes no mistakes, and I will show you a man who doesn't do things.

The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.

King Fahd was a man of great vision and leadership who inspired his countrymen for a quarter of a century as king. He led Saudi Arabia through a period of unparalleled progress and development.

Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights.

No man has yet become so great in any faculty but that it is possible for some one else to become greater.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.