Quotes About Progress

The main thing in life is survival. And survival is not just staying alive. It is also a constant effort to grow and to learn and to work.

Time passes irrevocably.

All things by nature are ready to get worse

Haec ubi dicta, petunt portus, et vela secundi intendunt Zephyri; fertur cita gurgite classis, et tandem laeti notae advertuntur harenae.

Time carries all things, even our wits, away.

Ille inter navemque Gyae scopulosque sonantes radit iter laevum interior, subitoque priorem praeterit, et metis tenet aequora tuta relictis.

Through chances various, through all vicissitudes, we make our way.

O fortunati, quorum iam moenia surgunt!

With some exceptions, the enemies of the future aim their attacks not at creativity itself but at the dynamic processes through which it is carried.

To reverse Arthur C. Clarke's famous adage about magic, any sufficiently familiar technology is indistinguishable from nature.

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation.

Still, life had a way of adding day to day

If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today? Does the progress of civilization depend upon great men? Is the lot of the average human being better now that in the time of the Pharaohs?

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

That was the strange thing, that one did not know where one was going, or what one wanted, and followed blindly, suffering so much in secret, always unprepared and amazed and knowing nothing; but one thing led to another and by degrees something had formed itself out of nothing, and so one reached at last this calm, this quiet, this certainty, and it was this process that people called living.

It was awful, he cried, awful, awful! Still, the sun was hot. Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

I am never stagnant; I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.

Does Nature supplement what man advanced? Or does she complete what he began?

How fast the stream flows from January to December!

I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.

Do you think people change? I meant ourselves — do we change?

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.