Quotes About Progress

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

We shall not wait for tomorrow. The future is always beginning now...

You can never plan the future by the past.

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution.

Obviously, what we need are critical lovers of America — patriots who express their faith in their country by working to improve it.

No one's going to take our democracy away from us, not now, not ever. America's come too far. America's fought too many battles. America's endured too much to ever let that happen.

Thrift began with civilization. It began when men found it necessary to provide for to-morrow as well as for to-day. It began long before money was invented.

Time gives good advice. (El tiempo da buen consejo.)

Every day a thread makes a skein in the year.

Time more than flies. It tramples. It loots. It mugs.

It's only Tuesday and I'm already 95% done with this week.

Wednesday — I can almost see the weekend from here!

Wednesday — at least tomorrow we'll be on the other side of the work week.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into a giant oak. Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

You can't say that civilization don't advance, however, for in every war they kill you in a new way.

Caulfield: In the past, here's how you'd forecast the weather: pick up your phone; call someone west of you; have them open a window. In the present, you open a window on your phone. Frazz: In the future, no one goes outdoors.

I know as well as you must that there are many articles of belief clinging to the skirts of our time which are the bequests of the ages of ignorance that God winked at.

If winter wrote an autobiography, it would be mostly about the spring.

This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half-wise, sometimes half-stupid.

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.