Quotes About Progress

Out of mistakes grows wisdom.

When I go back to my hometown, it's grown so much that I get lost. I never needed a map when I lived there, but now I couldn't get around without GPS.

There is no other way, it seems, in a deciduous world. True evergreenness does not exist: the word is only another term for the ability to overlap the old with the new.

A man lives his life only when he is marching, i thought, when he keeps marching onwards at any price. When he stops marching onwards, he decays. The joy of life is the joy of the experience that comes from feeling one's own strength.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.

Yet in moments of industrial stress and strain the community is confronted by a moral perplexity which may arise from the mere fact that the good of yesterday is opposed to the good of today, and that which may appear as a choice between virtue and vice is really but a choice between virtue and virtue. In the disorder and confusion sometimes incident to growth and progress, the community may be unable to see anything but the unlovely struggle itself.

We stand today united in a belief in beauty, genius, and courage, and that these can transform the world.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

He had suffered, and he had learnt to think, two advantages that he had never known before…

All this she must possess, added Darcy, and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want.

She began to feel that she had not yet gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment, which the progress of time and variation of circumstances occasion in this world of changes.

Every thing was to take its natural course, however, neither impelled nor assisted.

These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…

Her mind was less difficult to develop.

I have observed, Mrs Elton, in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.

One cannot creep upon a journey; one cannot help getting on faster than one has planned: and the pleasure of coming in upon one's friends before the look-out begins is worth a great deal more than any little exertion it needs.

I have observed...in the course of my life, that if things are going outwardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.