Quotes About Progress

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

Dear Night! this world's defeat;The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb;The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreatWhich none disturb!Christ's progress, and His prayer-time;The hours to which high Heaven doth chime.

Some men a forward motion love,But I by backward steps would move.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

There are no birds in last year's nest

Nothing that is can pause or stay; The moon will wax, the moon will wane, The mist and cloud will turn to rain, The rain to mist and cloud again, Tomorrow be today.

Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

A banner with the strange device,Excelsior!

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.

We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.

The century which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.