Quotes About Progress

I certainly didn't set out to create something famous there. I just set out to find some answers to questions that were nagging me. As in life, so in science: One thing leads to another, and before you know it, you find yourself someplace you never imagined going.

Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.

Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?

This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees

For, as it has often happened to the traveller in the York or the Exeter coach to fall snugly asleep in his corner, and on awaking suddenly to find himself sixty or seventy miles from the place where Somnus first visited him: as, we say, although you sit still, Time, poor wretch, keeps perpetually running on, and so must run day and night, with never a pause or a halt of five minutes to get a drink, until his dying day;

He had not got beyond the theory as yet — the practice of life was all to come.

I can see myself still myself all along the way I have gone. - Lady Abundance

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The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.

Future? Homer said. He was a little embarrassed because all his life, from day to day, he had been busy mapping out a future, even if it was only a future for the next day. Well, he said, I don't know for sure, but I guess I'd like to be somebody some day.

What's past is prologue.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Iago

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad

we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar.

A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.

But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend.

Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life.

Forward, I pray, since we have come so far, And be it moon, or sun, or what you please. And if you please to call it a rush candle, Henceforth I vow it shall be so for me.

At first I did adore a twinkling star But now I worship a celestial sun

Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell. Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.