Quotes About Progress

Speaking of Ted Turner The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher and better than themselves.

That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Rome was not built in a day.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

What some invent the rest enlarge.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

As both the Mercury and Apollo programs have shown, our science and technology are so powerful that, if an intense effort is made, we can do almost anything we want in say, ten years - provided we are not in conflict with the laws of nature.

Medieval Technology? The Middle Ages invented, among other things, the crank, the horse collar, eyeglasses, the flying buttress, the stirrup, the windmill, the wheelbarrow, printing, firearms, paper, the canal lock, the compass, the rudder, the mechanical clock, the spinning wheel, and the treadle.

Never think you've seen the last of anything.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform.

I've always tried to go a step past wherever people expected me to end up.

Don't try to teach a whole course in one lesson.

It is the duty of youth to bring its fresh powers to bear on social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.

Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

The cure for grief is motion.

The future is not in the hands of fate, but in ours.

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

If there is no wind, row.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

The basic freedom of the world is woman's freedom.

Two-parent sex appeared on the scene about 500,000,000 years ago.