Quotes About Progress

Unfortunately, results are the only thing that some people look at, but there is more to defining success than just stats.

Unfortunately, some of our poor choices are irreversible, but many are not. Often, we can change course and get back on the right track.

Failure is unfortunately as common as success.

In the U.S., we really have fallen short of road-racing facilities that have kept up with the times, unfortunately, but it's a fact.

. . . hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth.

To achieve, you need thought

There's nothing like going on with a thing.

I don't know anything about anything. The only difference between then and now is this: I may know more than I used to but my wisdom pales in comparison to that which I have yet to learn

The wise use of leisure, it must be conceded, is a product of civilization and education.

Enrichment only comes through purification.

It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.

Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.

Wisdom is dead. Long live information.

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

if we lose our human values by having everything mechanied, then machines will dictate our lives.

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.

Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection.

Even the Master, in one way or another, is a student throughout life.

A true Christian only falls upward and not backward