Quotes About Progress

The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.

Bolsheviks create their own difficulties which they successfully overcame later.

All great movements, every vigorous impulse that a community may feel, become perverted and distorted as time passes

Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and delay the new. And every time, history did it with faster, more reliable and more advanced vehicles.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

If you are going through hell, keep going

change is the best kind of rest.

History, which, we are told, is mainly the record of the crimes, follies, and miseries of mankind

In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.

Za pochodu si vytvárame svoj vlastný vesmír.

If you are walking through hell, keep walking!

The moral philosophy and spiritual conceptions of men and nations should hold their own amid these formidable scientific evolutions…No material progress, even though it takes shapes we cannot now conceive, or however it may expand the faculties of man, can bring comfort to his soul.

In this period, almost equal to that which separates us from the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, well-to-do persons in Britain lived better than they ever did until late Victorian times. From the year 400 till the year 1900 no one had central heating and very few had hot baths.

Afortunadamente «los árboles no crecen hasta el cielo» y las ofensivas, por victoriosas que sean, pierden su fuerza inicial y se agotan con el terreno ganado.

In the autumn of 1942, at the peak of the struggle for Guadalcanal, only three American aircraft-carriers were afloat; a year later there were fifty; by the end of the war there were more than a hundred.

Cada serie de circunstancias crea otras nuevas.

It would be an ill day for all the world and for the pair of them if they did not go on working together and marching together and sailing together and flying together, whenever something has to be done for the sake of freedom and fair play all over the world. That is the great hope of the future.

Success is never final.

history is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind;

we must observe the march of Facts. Over stony roads, through the defiles of thorny and rock-clad hills, across ochre deserts baking in the sun, the weary, sullen caravan of Facts kept pertinaciously jogging along.

Past experience carries with its advantages the drawback that things never happen the same way again.

Gunpowder, which we have seen used in the puny bombards which, according to some authorities, Edward had fired at Crécy and against Calais, was soon decisively to establish itself as a practical factor in war and in human affairs based on war. If cannon had not been invented the English mastery of the long-bow might have carried them even farther in their Continental domination.

The problems of the second year of war must be dealt with by the experience of the first year of war. The problems of the third year of war must be met by results observed and understood in the second, and so on.

British influence is healthy and kindly, and makes for the general happiness and welfare of mankind.