Quotes About Progress

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish

A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything

A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

The saved man is not a perfect man, but his heart's desire is to become perfect.

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.

If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.

People have a crab mentality, man. They're walking sideways.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

New York is one of man's greatest achievements.

It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

MMA for me was a stepping stone in my life as a man to grow.

Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.

A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.

Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.