Quotes About Progress

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.

Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic, and more time to drive to the office.

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings, goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury, and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Progress - the stride of God!

The point of therapy is get unhooked, not to thrash around on how you got hooked.

It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.

After the rain cometh the fair weather.

You can't move so fast that you try to change [a situation] faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Good is not good, where better is expected.

Better is the enemy of the good.

Probably any successful career has "X" number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't superachievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

Reforms should begin at home and stay there.

Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover.

A republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week, but lately I forget three things a week.

The mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine.