Quotes About Progress

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain.

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

What's past is prologue.

I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous communication, we bear the weight of problems our forefathers only read about after they were solved.

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

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

Respect the past in the full measure of its deserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present, nor seek in it the ideals of the future.

The best compliment we can pay our past is to prophetically and bravely face today and tomorrow.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

The past is the tomorrow that got away.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's damn is the history we make today.

You are younger today than you ever will be again. Make use of it for the sake of tomorrow.

The present is the blocks with which we build.

The present is the symbol and vehicle of the future.

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

Today Relative to Yesterday or Tomorrow The future is made of the same stuff as the present.

There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future.