Quotes About Progress

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know"

Change is hard at the beginning. Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

Sometimes we disfigure ourselves by what we think about ourselves rather than by what we do to ourselves. Some people have been disfigured emotionally because of what others did to them when they were children. Sometimes our memory banks become warehouses of beliefs and feelings that cripple our progress.

The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.

It is imperative that the past of the pilgrims' progress be intentionally carried forward into the present as we work into our future. Without it we cannot know who we are, why we are here, or where we can go. Without a common past to live out of we become aimless and wandering individuals instead of a pilgrim people.

dealing with the cycles of life*

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Every time a child is harmed, HUMANITY takes a backward step

every substance contains undeveloped resources and potentialities, and can be brought outward and forward into perfection.

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one.

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure.

Man is better off without the confusion and fear of psychic experience and his progress will be faster.' If telepathy ever becomes a possibility he was not sure it would be a good thing, '...for it may put us back in contact with the spirits of the dead and progress does not lie in that direction.

Warner Studios official in the era of silent movies: Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

All is as it should be. Learn, let go, move on

As long as we don't give up, we don't fail. We just continue to learn

Defeat is embracing what doesn't work

Growth is impossible if we continue to do things the same way

Mistakes are not failure if we learn from them

Mistakes need correction not punishment