Quotes About Progress

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Not an hour is lost that is spent in the saddle.

If the present tries to sit in judgment on the past, it will lose the future.

I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things.

Of this I am quite sure. If we open up a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

If your going through hell, keep going.

Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.

Ross said: "I'll tell you what is best for the other man, always, and that's work. Work is a challenge. I've told you – I tried to drink myself out of my misery once. It didn't succeed. Only work did. It's the solvent to so much. Build yourself a wall, even if there's hell in your heart, and when it's done – even at the end of the first day – you feel better.

He was not discontented, but he was too restless, too preoccupied. Each day led so relentlessly to the next, linked by cause and effect, anticipation and result, preparation and achievement.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Those who never change their minds, never change anything.

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward.