Quotes About Progress

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation.

By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

When our vices leave us, we flatter ourselves with the credit of having left them.

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.

The Saints are the Sinners who keep on trying.

A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.

You know, my children, that humanity advances only by forming itself an ideal and endeavoring to realize it. Every passion has its ideal, which is modified by that of the whole.

Every woman dreams of her own political career and her own place in life.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

I'll fares the land, to hastening ills of prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Prosperity is just around the corner.

No good man ever became suddenly rich.

Westward the course of empire takes its way.

Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

Worry is like a rocking chair-it keeps you moving but doesn't get you anywhere.

Worry is a futile thing, it's somewhat like a rocking chair, Although is keeps you occupied, it doesn't get you anywhere.

When you worry, you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started. Thinking, on the other hand, makes progress from one place to another. ... The problem of life is to change worry into thinking, and anxiety into creative action.