Quotes About Progress

There were times when the blessings of education appeared a little over-rated, since it seemed only to enable the nations to quarrel with greater fluency in some modern Tower of Babel.

Inertia is the most powerful force in business. Things stay just as they are until something—brute force, reason, fear, enlightened self-interest, the survival instinct—effects movement.

Science," said the French philosopher Valéry, "is a collection of successful recipes.

The Chinese have a proverb pregnant with the age-old wisdom of the Orient: 'He who treads softly goes far.

No lloremos nunca sobre la leche derramada

No man who is resolved to make the most of himself,' said Lincoln, 'can spare time for personal contention.

In school you're rewarded for not making mistakes.

Once he found learning was easy, his whole life changed.

Not everything I wrote yesterday appeals to me today.

This A is not an expectation to live up to, but a possibility to live into.2

What a difference that made!

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You I and everyone else are like this hourglass. When

what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

are all imperfect beings full of shortcomings, and this affords us perhaps as many opportunities

Quien pisa con suavidad va lejos".

He who treads softly goes far.

we only move toward what moves us.

This is when my business began to not only turn around; it began to take off.

Roosevelt, and Dorothy Dix. But that was only a beginning. I also did something else that was far more important than the interviews

There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analysing our past mistakes and profiting by them-and forgetting them.

For "the great aim of education," said Herbert Spencer, the English sociologist and philosopher, "is not knowledge but action.

PRINCIPLE 6 Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be 'hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise.