Quotes About Progress

Evolution: one small step for man, one giant leap backward for mankind.

The next evolutionary step for humankind is to move from human to kind.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

As long as you're green, you're growing; as soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Any increase in knowledge anywhere helps pave the way for an increase in knowledge everywhere.

It takes three springs to make one leap year.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.

Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.

Despite our fears and worries, and they are very real to all of us, life continues — it goes on. In these three words I can sum up everything I have learned in my 80 years about life — it goes on.

In the map of your life, the best place to be is at the intersection of Here and Now. You can't get to any other place you want to be without starting from there.

If you are still talking about what you did yesterday, you haven't done much today.

Stay on top of your past so you can have a better view of your future.

Luck has a peculiar habit of connecting with the man on the move...

Trigonometry is a sine of the times.

We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder.

Somewhere in this process, you will come face to face with the sudden and shocking realization that you are completely crazy. Your mind is a shrieking, gibbering madhouse on wheels barreling pell-mell down the hill, utterly out of control and helpless. No problem. You are not crazier than you were yesterday. It has always been this way, and you just never noticed... So don't let this realization unsettle you. It is a milestone actually, a sign of real progress.

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

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

Morning isn't just the sun coming up anew over the horizon — you are, too.

Not the day only, but all things have their morning.

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be net neutrality.

Flawed past is history; flawed present is opportunity.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.