Quotes About Progress

There are no lost causes because there are no gained causes.

The more I know about myself the more dynamic I become, the more expansive I become.

Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.

Extending over more than a century and including most nations of the globe, the cause of woman suffrage has been one of the great democratic forces in human history.

Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn.

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

You will profit by the failure, and will avoid it another time. I have done a similar thing myself, in construction, often. Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn.

The only way to learn is by changing your mind.

Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last war over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead.

I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

Spiritual growth is the only real growth

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

We have so many opportunities in first world countries. Let's not squander them by focusing on obstacles-real or imaginary!

The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.

Creating new paths requires moving old obstacles.

We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year-but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.

Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.

We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?