Quotes About Progress

People are no longer afraid of him.The spirit and the time are with him. (Il ne fait plus peur. L'esprit et le temps sont avec lui.)"

Shoe strangles the foot. But it advances. (La chaussure étrangle le pied. Mais elle fait avancer)

The regrets are like yesterday: They announce only the future. (Les regrets sont comme hier: - Ils n'annoncent que le futur)

The work trains the youth. I have a start of old age ... (Le travail forme la jeunesse. J'ai un début de vieillesse ...)

One expected growth, change without it, the world was less, the well of inspiration dried up, the muses fled.

A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century.

Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss. I see the lives for which I lay down my life, peaceful, useful, prosperous and happy. I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.

We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.

I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out...

If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.

things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up

In journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up

Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

First, not a word more from you about the past. There was an error in your calculations. I know what that is. It affects the whole machine, and failure is the consequence. 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; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.

That I growed up a man and not a beast says something for me.

Cada fracaso enseña algo que se necesitaba aprender.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.