Quotes About Progress

But to me it sounds like a man waking from a paralysis to discover, in rapid succession, that he can walk, that he can run, that he can run fast.

Generally, it's better to understand that change is a matter of patience and persistence, setbacks and renewed effort, rather than sudden perfection.

Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves. When we're lucky, they go together. If I had to choose, I'd take learning.

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.

Is man's civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?

He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.

History is a great dust heap.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.

You don't want to be great to start anything like business or any other but you will become great once you started

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Idleness is worst, Idleness alone is without hope: work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at almost all things. There is endless hope in work, were it even work at making money.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.