Quotes About Progress

By straining his political power to the utmost, the Negro got a public school system and got it because that was one clear object which he understood and which no bribery or chicanery could seduce him from advocating and insisting upon season in and out.

All things in this world are historical.

Humanism is not a science, but religion. . . . Humanists like to think they have a rational view of the world; but their core belief in progress is a superstition, further from the truth about the human animal than any of the world's religions. —John Gray, Straw Dogs In

Life is fits and starts, mostly fits.

The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.

The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth.

you can advance only by more than filling your present place.

Do not wait for an opportunity to be all that you want to be.

Life is not a series of isolated ponds and puddles; life is this river you below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on its way to the future.

The world is made of stairs; some go up and some go down. . . .

Look back on the past but don't stare

Life is not a series of isolated ponds and puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on its way to the future.

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

The future is no more uncertain than the present.

These are the days that must happen to you

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

The past and the present wilt. I have fill'd them, emptied them, And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.

Have you surpassed the rest? Are you the president? It doesn't matter. They will more than arrive there, every one, and still pass on.

The past and present wilt—I have fill'd them, emptied them. And proceed to fill my next fold of the future.

Soy una infinidad de cosas ya cumplidas y una inmensidad de cosas por cumplir.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -from Song of Myself

Have the past struggles succeeded? What has succeeded? yourself? your nation? Nature? Now understand me well—it is provided in the essence of things that from any fruition of success, no matter what, shall come forth something to make a greater struggle necessary. -from Songs of the Open Road

Speed on my book! spread your white sails my little bark athwart the       imperious waves