Quotes About Progress

Not all speed is movement.

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the advancing years, and that, too, with surprising strides.

I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.

Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.

Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed.

Augustus Caesar

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.

There is no perfection in humanity.

It is the function of perfection to make one know one's imperfection.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted development.

Perfectionism is slow death.

The man who makes no mistakes lacks boldness and the spirit of adventure. He never tries anything new. He is a brake on the wheels of progress.

To try to be better is to be better.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

By perseverance the snails reached the ark.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure.

When people asked, I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick, the worse I got. Finally, I started saying, "I'm getting better." It took a while, but then I started to feel better, too.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.

Liberty cannot be caged into a charter and handed on ready-made to the next generation. Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times. Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.