Quotes About Progress

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

Our burden in going forward is tremendous. But our opportunity is glorious.

No matter how old we become, we can acquire knowledge and use it. We can gather wisdom and profit from it. We can grow and progress and improve-and, in the process, strengthen the livs of those within our circle of influence.

Stand tall and be strong in defense of those great virtues which have been the backbone of our social progress. When you are united, your power is limitless. You can accomplish anything you wish to accomplish. -President Gordon B. Hinckley, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.

Our hope concerning the future is great, and our faith is strong. We know we've scarcely scratched the surface of that which will come to pass in the years that lie ahead.

Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.

What a wonderful time it is for each of us to do his or her small part in moving the work of the Lord on to its magnificent destiny.

A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take upon yourselves the burden of rearing families, will never set aside the desire to acquire knowledge.

We are winning the war against Satan, and the future has never looked brighter.

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lord. You may not receive any direct revelation. But you will discover, as the years pass, that there has been a subtle guiding of your footsteps in paths of progress and great purpose.

We too must work. Nothing happens in this world until there is work. You never plow a field by turning it over in your mind. You have to put your hands to the handles of the plow and walk forward. It is easier now, but the principle is the same. There must be work, and what a great and wonderful blessing that is.

Let the past serve the present, let foreign things serve China," said that famous servant of the people Mao Zedong.

In the Deng Xiaoping era China had the highest growth rates in the world, but it now appears that much of the investment in the last quarter century was economically useless.

Today tinkering is the order of the day as Chinese leaders "cross the river by feeling the stones.

Consider these words from Lech Wa??sa: In the past, you could stand with a gun behind a man who had a pick and a spade and tell him to dig a hole two hundred meters long. But you can't put a man behind someone working creatively, behind a computer, and tell him, "Please devise something original." There is no way to do it

Yet Zhongguancun pales when measured against India's Bangalore, where government-sponsored development efforts started at about the same time. Today Bangalore produces original product, which domestic companies in Zhongguancun have not yet mastered, and Zhongguancun's output badly trails Bangalore's. That's just a reflection of something fundamental: "modern" China cannot keep up with "backward" India when it comes to information technology.

For China, yesterday poisons today and robs tomorrow.

China will make real progress in the fight against corruption only when prosecution and conviction are separated from politics.

we should listen to Leon Trotsky. "Revolution is impossible until it is inevitable," he told us.

Time waits for no country these days, however, not even one as important, or unimportant, as China. Nero fiddled, Jiang theorizes.

When you believe that you are the only path to progress, the choice is easy to make. And when they make that choice, their consciences will be clear

The students who surrendered the square on the morning of June 4 could not begin to imagine, in those sad days of 1989, that their ideas would eventually prevail. They set into motion a chain of events that will one day lead to a free and prosperous China, one better than they could, at that time, imagine—perhaps one better than we can imagine today.