Quotes About Progress

The future is the past in preparation.

The future is hope!

The future is a great land.

The possibilities for tomorrow are usually beyond our expectations.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past."

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages.

The Golden Age was never the present Age.

"The good old days." The only good days are ahead.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one which rolls.

Recognizing what we have done in the past is a recognition of ourselves. By conducting a dialogue with our past, we are searching how to go forward.

To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Let the past drift away with the water.

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

I like the dreams for the future better than the history of the past.

Never let yesterday use up today.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.