Quotes About Progress

Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change To something new, to something strange; 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, To-morrow be to-day.

Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as 'tis today.

Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.

I'm satisfied. I am progressively making my life and my name in the surest and purest manner. If I catch on in the theater, as I think I will, all the doors will gladly open wide for me.

The light that has guided us is still unquenched, and the causes that have carried us so far in the van of free nations have not spent their power; because the story of the future is written in the past, and that which hath been is the same thing that shall be.

I have reached the end of my time, and have hardly come to the beginning of my task.

The generation you consult will be more democratic and better instructed than our own; for the progress of democracy, though not constant, is certain, and the progress of knowledge is both constant and certain.

For I dipt into the future, as far as human eye can see, saw the vision of the world, and the wonder that would be.

If you get to it, And you cannot do it, There you jolly-well are, Aren't you?

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?

Humanity, let us say, is like people packed in an automobile which is traveling downhill without lights at terrific speed and driven by a four-year-old child. The signposts along the way are all marked 'Progress.

Genius is entitled to respect only when it promotes the peace and improves the happiness of mankind.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope.

Far too many people accept management promotions because they feel (often rightly so) that they will be dead-ended if they reject the promotion.

What's good for reform is bad for the reformers

If one could run the story of that first human group like a speeded-up motion picture through a million years of time, one might see the stone in the hand change to the flint ax and the torch.

Great minds have always seen it. That is why man has survived his journey this long. When we fail to wish any longer to be otherwise than what we are, we will have ceased to evolve. Evolution has to be lived forward. I say this as one who has stood above the bones of much that has vanished, and at midnight has examined his own face.

its own stability, however, it may well be that man himself is slowly achieving powers over a new dimension—a dimension capable of presenting him with a wisdom he has barely