Quotes About Progress

Happiness is not a station to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

The closer one gets to the top, the more one finds there is no "top."

If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

Success is not a doorway, it's a staircase.

Marconi invented radio, but Ted Husing knew what to do with it.

Success is a great healer.

When there is no feeling of accomplishment, children fail to develop properly and old people rapidly decline.

She's the kind of woman who climbed the ladder of success, wrong by wrong.

As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.

Progress means taking risks, for you can't steal home and keep your foot on third base.

There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others.

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

One swallow alone does not make the summer.

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

Don't worry if your "you" is small and your rewards are few: Remember that the mighty oak was once a nut like you.

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

The future comes one day at a time.

We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

The future is hidden even from those who make it.

I have been nothing ... but there is tomorrow.

We need not be afraid of the future, for the future will be in our own hands.

See how time makes all grief decay.

The future is the shape of things to come.