Quotes About Progress

Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God, and come under His influence and power, except in the inner chamber. It has been well said: "No man can expect to make progress in holiness who is not often and long alone with God."

Pride had rather go out of the way than go behind.

No matter how big and tough a problem may be, get rid of confusion by taking one little step towards solution. Do something. Then try again. At the worst, so long as you don't do it the same way twice, you will eventually use up all the wrong ways of doing it and thus the next try will be the right one.

Every problem contains the seeds of its own solution.

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

There is no movement without our own resistance.

Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles he has overcome trying to succeed.

Happiness is the overcoming of not unknown obstacles toward a known goal.

Before I started working here, I drank, smoked, and used bad language. Thanks to this job, I now have good reason.

New roads; new ruts.

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

Every gain made by individuals or society is almost instantly taken for granted.

Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.

A great devotee of the gospel of getting on.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat; that is progress.

The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

Always remember that the soundest way to progress in any organization is to help the man ahead of you to get promoted.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.