Quotes About Progress

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.

Time is the product of changing realities, beings, existences.

You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars, because each day is different.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Time is that in which all things pass away.

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.

Time is the devourer of all things.

The surest poison is time.

Time is the stuff life's made of.

Time is the greatest innovator.

speaker: I have only ten minutes and hardly know where to begin. voice in back: Begin at the ninth.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.

I always keep myself in a position of being a student.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

When things come to the worst, they generally mend.

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

To look up and not down, To look forward and not back, To look out and not in, and To lend a hand.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.

Acorns were good till bread was found.

None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.